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Re: Does anyone think it was a good thing ? (was Re: VeriSign Capitulates
From: "David G. Andersen" <dga () lcs mit edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 20:52:25 -0400
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:34:05PM -0400, jeffrey.arnold quacked:
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: :: OK, so was ANYONE on NANOG happy with :: a) Verisign's site finder :: b) How they launched it :: Disregarding their "implementation issues", the product is pretty good. I've actually used it to fix a few typos, etc... From an end user perspective, it's certainly better than a squid error page.
Yeah, but this is easy for you to provide as a service to users who want it. patch your squids with the following change to src/errorpage.c: @@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ * T - UTC x * U - URL without password x * u - URL with password x + * V - URL without http method without password x * w - cachemgr email address x * z - dns server error message x */ @@ -546,6 +547,9 @@ case 'u': p = r ? urlCanonical(r) : err->url ? err->url : "[no URL]"; break; + case 'V': + p = r ? urlCanonicalStripped(r) : err->url ? err->url : "[no URL]"; + break; case 'w': if (Config.adminEmail) memBufPrintf(&mb, "%s", Config.adminEmail); And then modify errors/English/ERR_DNS_FAIL to say: <H2>Alternatives</H2> You can try to view this server through: <ul> <li> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:%V">Google's Cache</a> <li> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/%U">The Internet Archive</a> <li> <a href="http://sitefinder.verisign.com/lpc?url=%V">Use Sitefinder to search for typos for this domain</a> </ul> If you're creative, have it send them with a redirect to a local CGI script that tries obvious typos. Very simple. My users like the link to the internet archive (also modify the "could not connect" error page and others). If you just want HTML, create a framed document that auto-loads the sitefinder doc in the bottom half, and pops up your own error page in the front. I leave that as an exercise to the HTML-clued reader, but it's not very hard. -Dave -- work: dga () lcs mit edu me: dga () pobox com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ I do not accept unsolicited commercial email. Do not spam me.
Current thread:
- Re: VeriSign Capitulates, (continued)
- Re: VeriSign Capitulates Sean Donelan (Oct 03)
- Re: VeriSign Capitulates Rafi Sadowsky (Oct 03)
- Re: VeriSign Capitulates Wayne E. Bouchard (Oct 03)
- Re: VeriSign Capitulates Rafi Sadowsky (Oct 03)
- Re: VeriSign Capitulates Nathan J. Mehl (Oct 03)
- Re: VeriSign Capitulates Scott Weeks (Oct 03)
- Re: VeriSign Capitulates George Bakos (Oct 03)
- Does anyone think it was a good thing ? (was Re: VeriSign Capitulates Mike Tancsa (Oct 03)
- Re: Does anyone think it was a good thing ? (was Re: VeriSign Capitulates Haesu (Oct 03)
- Re: Does anyone think it was a good thing ? (was Re: VeriSign Capitulates jeffrey.arnold (Oct 03)
- Re: Does anyone think it was a good thing ? (was Re: VeriSign Capitulates Petri Helenius (Oct 03)
- Re: Does anyone think it was a good thing ? (was Re: VeriSign Capitulates David G. Andersen (Oct 03)
- Re: VeriSign Capitulates George Bakos (Oct 03)
- Re: VeriSign Capitulates Sean Donelan (Oct 03)
- RE: VeriSign Capitulates Allen McRay (Oct 03)
- RE: VeriSign Capitulates Owen DeLong (Oct 03)
- Re: VeriSign Capitulates Haesu (Oct 03)
- Re: VeriSign Capitulates Kevin Loch (Oct 03)
- Re: VeriSign Capitulates Wayne E. Bouchard (Oct 03)
- Re: VeriSign Capitulates E.B. Dreger (Oct 03)