Re: Redirect Broken Links?

Ryan Smith ( (no email) )
Fri, 6 Jun 1997 17:15:50 -0400

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From: Sam Akhtar <srakhtar@ibisnet.net>
To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
Date: Friday, June 06, 1997 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: Redirect Broken Links?

>>I have been on sites that if you go to a link that is no longer
>available,
>>you get a custom page saying the link is bad and notify the webmaster
>from
>>the calling site. Is it possible to make a custom page like this for
>IIS
>>3.0?
>
>You could use something like HTMLEx (http://www.riteh.hr/HTMLEx/) which
>is an ISAPI DLL... we have it running, try typing a bogus URL
>(http://www.ibisnet.net/bogus.html) at http://www.ibisnet.net/
>
>
>Sam Akhtar

Sam,

That HTMLEx is a pretty cool program, I have one question for you.. How did
you set up your IIS so that it sends that same HTML file for everything
bogus.. (btw, I tried a few other ficticious locations on your site, works
everywhere.. pretty cool!)

Thanks,

Ryan Smith
ryans@logic-net.com
LogicNet