richjb — Sun, 09 Jul 2000 17:58:35 +0000

Problem resolved.

Richard

emke — Fri, 07 Jul 2000 12:10:51 +0000

Hi Richard,

Yeah, something like that. The ?numbers users get are dynamically created and the URLs are incredibly long, so I configured the script that I'm using and they get these shorter URLs with the ?something at the end but I figure that I need a redirect script that will take the ?something at the end of the short URLs and redirect to the longer URL. But the problem is that I don't know what they'll get at the end as the ?numbers are dynamically created. So the script needs to take the ?number at the end of the shorter link and than in some way take the ?number and insert it in the longer URLs end and than redirect the user to the longer URL but the ?number of the link at the end of the shorter URL must stay the same in the longer URL that the user is redirected to.
Is this possible?

richjb — Fri, 07 Jul 2000 09:52:13 +0000

basically all you want is a system where no matter what they click on ?number always stays the same? like a tracking system for referrals, ect?

Richard

emke — Fri, 07 Jul 2000 08:43:02 +0000

OK, this is cool. But my problem with redirecting is that I don't know to what URL I'll redirect people to. I mean I don't know what'll be at the end of the URL, something like ?66379. So if I have a short URL that ends with redirect.cgi?66379 I want the script to redirect to the long URL that ends with ?id=66379, the ?something is the same with both URLs.
But as I don't know what'll be at the end, it could be any ?something, I want the script to, and I don't know if this is possible, figure it out from the links URL and automatically redirect to the longer URL with the ?something that is the same as it was in the shorter URL.
I hope that you can understand this.
Is this possible and how can I do this?
Emir.

abahta — Tue, 04 Jul 2000 23:06:01 +0000

No way!

vBulletin rules!!

Orpheus — Tue, 04 Jul 2000 20:19:24 +0000

I liked the UBB a lot better.

Justin S — Mon, 03 Jul 2000 14:37:54 +0000

Uhg, can't get this right. It added URL and /URL into the code.

Justin S — Mon, 03 Jul 2000 14:37:08 +0000

Oops, looks like vBulletin added [url] and [/url] to the code. Take those out.

Justin S — Mon, 03 Jul 2000 14:36:16 +0000

Try running this program...

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI qw/:standard/;
$action = param('action');

if($action eq "1") { &number1; }
elsif($action eq "2") { &number2; }
elsif($action eq "3") { &number3; }
elsif($action eq "4") { &number4; }
else { &showerror; }

sub number1 {
   print "Location: [url]http://www.url.com/directory/link.html\n\n";[/url]
   exit;
}

sub number2 {
   print "Location: [url]http://www.url.com/directory/link.html\n\n";[/url]
   exit;
}

sub number3 {
   print "Location: [url]http://www.url.com/directory/link.html\n\n";[/url]
   exit;
}

sub number4 {
   print "Location: [url]http://www.url.com/directory/link.html\n\n";[/url]
   exit;
}

sub showerror {
   print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
   print "Sorry, there was an error processing your request";
   exit;
}

If you look at it you'll see that it's pretty easy to add as many "extensions" as you need. This is how the script works: people go to http://www.url.com/directory/script.cgi?action=1 which will redirect them to the link in sub number1.