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Re: random post
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 01:40:54 GMT
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On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:48:44 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com>
wrote:

> - Sends a 'Location:' header back to your browser to redirect it to the
>  article it randomly chose.  So, when you see the article, you see it at its
>  native URL rather than from the randmsg.cgi URL.  :)

barney:/var/spool/mail# telnet www.lugnet.com 80
Trying 209.68.63.236...
Connected to lugnet.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
get http://www.lugnet.com/news/randmsg.cgi HTTP/1.0

<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>302 Moved Temporarily</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Moved Temporarily</H1>
The document has moved <A
HREF="http://www.lugnet.com/robotics/?n=8425">here</A>.<P>
</BODY></HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.
barney:/var/spool/mail#


"Moved Temporarily" is a bit shaky ground, innit?

This also prevents you from hitting reload to see a new one. That's an
omission, IMHO.

Jasper



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(...) Hey, somebody's doing a lot of non-root stuff as root. :) (...) Yeah maybe. But there's no other choice in http 1.0, really, is there? 1.1 has a 303 "See Other", which might be better. But what's the state of http 1.1 implementation in (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Ha-HA! So I'm not the only one then! I actually made a thing for that last year -- on (hmm, when was it? lemme check...<tap, tap, tap>...OK, got it) on June 23, 1999. The link to it was on the www.lugnet.com homepage for about a month, but I (...) (27 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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