webredirect

Posted 2001-01-17 22:34. Last updated 2003-07-17 12:00. Tagged web, project, c++, http.

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A small web server serving “301 Moved Permanently” or “302 Moved Temporarily” to all requests.

Update 2003-07-17: Relase 0.3 of webredirect is out on the ftp server. The main news in this release are:

Updated the C++ language usage, so this version works with gcc 3.x (and should work with other standard-compliant C++ compilers).

Added two command line options, to redirect temporarily instead of permanently and to redirect all requests to just the base target, without the path/file part of the requested URI appended. Submitted by Michael A Dickerson mikey@singingtree.com.

Update 2001-03-07: Release 0.2 is out. Go get it! This fixes a small but serious bug; the -t parameter was actually ignored previously.

Usage

If you, for example, want to redirect all web traffic at http://foo.org to _http://bar.org/foo, you just run:

foo# webredirect -t http://bar.org/foo

… on the host foo.org. In case foo.org is a virtual host (maybe even on the same physical host as bar.org), you can tell webredirect to listen only at the foo.org interface (it must be a “real” virtual host, i.e. foo.org must be a distinct IP address).

foo# webredirect -a foo.org -t http://bar.org/foo

See the included man page for more details.

Source

The C++ source for webredirect is available from ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/projects/webredirect/. It is also available as a FreeBSD port (and binary package).

Screen shot

You’re kidding, right?

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