Cookie Redirect Script

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Hello

I've been looking for a small snippet of code which I haven't had much luck
finding. I was wondering if anyone is aware of a script that might be able
to do the following for me:

On my website, I get quite a bit of 404 traffic. What I was looking for is
the first time a surfer goes to the 404 page, it will redirect the user to
http://www.page1.htm. At the same time, it would place a cookie on his pc.

Should the user come back and get a 404 page within X hours (A number I'd
configure), the second time, he would be redirected to http://www.page2.htm.
If he came back a third time, he would go to http://www.page3.htm.

If X=24 hours, and 24 hours passes and the user comes back and gets a 404
page, the whole process would start again and this time he would go back to
http://www.page1.htm.

Thank you

[Alan Little]

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
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On my website, I get quite a bit of 404 traffic. What I was looking
for is the first time a surfer goes to the 404 page, it will redirect
the user to http://www.page1.htm. At the same time, it would place a
cookie on his pc.

Should the user come back and get a 404 page within X hours (A number
I'd configure), the second time, he would be redirected to
http://www.page2.htm. If he came back a third time, he would go to
http://www.page3.htm.

Something like:

(1x) Sorry, that page isn't here.
(2x) Sorry, that page *still* isn't here, and won't be any time soon.
(3x) WHAT, ARE YOU %##$^&$# STUPID!? THE PAGE ISN'T HERE!!!!

:)

Make your 404 page a page which just checks the cookie, sets or updates
it as needed, and then sets window.location accordingly.

Although you're probably better off doing this with server-side
scripting, or with mod_rewrite if you're using Apache.

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Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/