Posted by Jim Hayter on 08/11/05 17:24

On 10 Aug 2005 17:27:09 -0700, in alt.apache.configuration,
"siliconmike" <siliconmike@yahoo.com> wrote:

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>try yahoo.org - they take you to yahoo.com without double loading..
>
>is this a dns trick or what?
>
>Mike

It is done by sending a 301 status, generated by the web server:

08/11/05 10:21:45 Browsing http://yahoo.org
Fetching http://yahoo.org/ ...
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: yahoo.org
Connection: close
User-Agent: Sam Spade 1.14

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:22:16 GMT
Location: http://www.yahoo.com/
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.yahoo.com/">here</A>.<P>
<!-- p1.rc.scd.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Thu Aug 11 07:22:16 PDT
2005 -->


HTH,
Jim

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