Surely others have responded by now. When I hit that URL I get a 302
response, which is a redirection. The LOCATION header in the 302 is
http://howto.yahoo.com. This is how it's supposed to work.
Steve Layten
At 09:03 AM 10/12/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Mysterious redirection in YAHOO:
>
>When I try to open the Help Yahoo page - the one with the question mark
>in
>the top image -
>
>http://www.yahoo.com/r/hw,
>
>the Netscape 4.0 browser displays page http://howto.yahoo.com instead.
>
>In order to understand how this is accomplished (i.e. how the browser
>knows to go to this page), I analyzed the page source - no indication
>(no Base tag).
>I wrote a simple client program to see whether there are any funny
>headers in the response (i.e. Location) - no such thing.
>I also printed out the response status code (thinking maybe it is a
>redirect)
>- no, status code reads 200 OK.
>
>Http gurus, please help! I know this is slightly offtopic (OK, maybe not
>
>slightly), but I need to understand this in order to get my Servlet
>project working.
>
>
>Thanks a lot
>
> Ilia
>
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