[TAG] linuxgazette.net redirecting to gentikayos.com

[Francis Daly]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:25:55PM +0400, MNZ wrote:

Hi there,

> Whenever I try to get to linuxgazette.net:80 from a perl script I get a 
> redirect to gentikayos.com

When I do it and leave out the http Host: header, I get the content for
genetikayos.com, but I don't get a redirect.

It might just be a terminology thing.

> What can be causing this?

Your script isn't doing what it should.

What you should do is send lines like

"""
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: linuxgazette.net

"""

to the tcp port 80. If your client doesn't send the Host: header, it
can't really expect to work well on the current web. (There are other
headers that probably should be sent too, as per RFC. And if you're a
spider, there are other things to be aware of.)

Module authors hopefully wrote correct clients, if you're in a rush to
"have a client" rather than "write a client", that might be a useful
path to take.

All the best,

	f
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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org