Posted by Corona on 06/24/05 12:30

Thanks Joker. That's an interesting page but it doesn't solve my problem.

The site that needs to generate a custom page doesn't support ASP or
ASP.NET... It claims to support cgi but I haven't been able to get that to
work yet so I stuck with HTML and JavaScript.

"Joker7" <sat_ring@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Corona" <corona_moon-no-friggin-spam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:h0Eue.4559$zI6.4549@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com...
> :I have an ASP.NET page on a local server. On an internet website I have a
> : page that redirects to the local page.
> :
> : The problem is that the local page has a dynamic IP address and is
> behind
> a
> : firewall. So, I wrote an application that periodotically goes out on the
> net
> : and gets my public address. It compares the public address to see if
> it's
> : changed since the last time it was checked. If it changed the app
> generates
> : an HTML redirection page with the new IP address and uploads it to the
> : internet site.
> :
> : What I want to be able to do is change the behavior of the redirection
> page
> : so that it asks the user to try again in a few minutes instead of giving
> a
> : 404 page not found error. Is that possible in HTML? I don't want to
> resort
> : to server side scripts for a couple of reasons. I'm not sure what
> : capabilites the site supports and 2nd, I just don't want to learn
> another
> : damn language if I can help it... :)
> :
> :Take a look here:
> http://www.tastypopsicle.com/404.asp
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
> kick-butt.co.uk
>
>

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