Re: FAQ sites on the web?

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Nick Zitzmann (nickzman@eskimo.com)
20 Jul 96 23:10:58 -0700


> I am not a real web Guru, but there is a way, (I have seen it happen when

> I have been browsing, but could not see what exactly happened.) to have a

> URL tell the browser to get the document from the New URL. of course
> this requires that the old address still works.

You're talking about a Redirect header. The problem with this was that my
FAQ was originally stored as a textfile, which means that I wouldn't be
able to add a <META> tag to the file which would redirect the person
because textfiles get served as text/plain, not text/html, so the browser
is expecting a textfile, and because of that, it won't parse the HTML...
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