Triple reduncy.. nested..

[Tony Narlock]

I need a bit of help on this..

I am trying to make it so I can make the page see if one file is
active (not a 404 redirect/replacement page), and if that doesnt work,
it will automatically fall back to a different server.. for instance

see if programgeeks.net/blah.swf is there if not see if john.net/blah.swf is there if not see if joh23.com/blah.swf is there if not print ("movie not working");

play file

sort of like that...

this is a sort of mirroring thing I am trying to get working with
sites which agree to do it.. this is not being used to counter
security measures / steal bandwidth but to play movies from sites who
agree to let us borrow it.

[Pedro Graca]

Tony Narlock wrote:

I need a bit of help on this..

I am trying to make it so I can make the page see if one file is
active (not a 404 redirect/replacement page), and if that doesnt work,
it will automatically fall back to a different server.. for instance

see if programgeeks.net/blah.swf is there

use sockets and ...

: telnet programgeeks.net 80
: HEAD /blah.swf HTTP/1.0
:

interpret result

for example:

: telnet www.example.com 80
: HEAD /default.asp HTTP/1.0
:

returns
: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
: Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:39:35 GMT
: Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux)
: Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
: Via: 1.1 Application and Content Networking System Software 5.0.5
: Connection: Close

which means default.asp is not there
--
--= my mail box only accepts =--
--= Content-Type: text/plain =--
--= Size below 10001 bytes =--