Jonathan Michaelson — Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:52:03 +0000

I think you're going to have to do something with Rewrite rules in your conf files (I'm not sure if these work in .htaccess files). You can do what Apache calls Referer Deflection (at the bottom of the following doc):
http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html

Mark Hensler — Sat, 19 Aug 2000 06:02:41 +0000

would you be able to do something like this with .htaccess?

I know you can for file redirection, but can you put HTTP_REFERER logic in there?

123finder.com — Sat, 19 Aug 2000 00:35:20 +0000

I'm using the Black Perl Book, not bad at all!
But the best book I've found when got started with CGI scripting is (still now) CGI101 (www.cgi101.com)

It works!!!

Linda — Sat, 19 Aug 2000 00:25:44 +0000

Son/123Finder's solution worked like a charm - easy to use, worked the first time - once I figured out that I needed to hit Refresh (duh!)

I'm thrilled. I've been putting up with this not being right forever. Now http://www.scritchies.com goes to someplace where I can put my new horse-related site. Yeehaaa.

Thanks to you all, for the suggestions and book recommendation. Have a great weekend.

Linda

richjb — Fri, 18 Aug 2000 23:58:16 +0000

Linda, welcome to TWF!

Make sure to post if you have any more problems.

Also, for a book recommendation, anything published by O'reilly would be great. I think the book "Learning Perl Programming" (or something like that) would be great for the begginer. Another thing to note is that the above suggested book (if I'm thinking about the right one) was written by the creater of PERL, Larry Wall.

Richard
richjb::413

123finder.com — Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:16:50 +0000

I have Domain Redirector 1.1 CGI script (freeware) from scriptsolutions.com

If anyone wants to get it, mail to webmaster@guideclick.com, I will send it to you.
Or if there is a request to post the code on this board (not very long, about 1 page!), I'll do it!

Thanks Jonathan!

Linda — Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:19:44 +0000

I can't wait to try it. Thank you so much.
Linda

Jonathan Michaelson — Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:08:29 +0000

If you wanted to do something like this in perl CGI (though it's not really practical for this specific purpose) you'd use something like the following in an index.cgi script at the top of your web site:

[code]
#!/usr/bin/perl
if (%ENV{HTTP_REFERER} eq "http://http://www.mywork.com")
{print "location: http://www.mysite.com/work/\n\n";}
elsif (%ENV{HTTP_REFERER}) eq "http://http://www.myhobbies.com")
{print "location: http://www.mysite.com/hobbies/\n\n";}
else {print "location: http://www.mysite.com/index.htm\n\n"}

Jonathan Michaelson — Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:01:57 +0000

It would probably be easier to do using JavaScript on your index page using the following syntax at the top of the page after the tag:

&lt;script&gt;
<!--
if (document.referrer == "http://www.mywork.com")
   {location = "http://www.mysite.com/work/";};
if (document.referrer == "http://www.myhobbies.com")
   {location = "http://www.mysite.com/hobbies/";};
-->
&lt;/script&gt;