Dynamic Redirection
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At last, Pcomm has done a simple thingy :-)


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Ever felt that your ISP doesn't give you enough web space ? Or none at all ?
Or maybe you would like to have some more anyway ? Or would like a site
that is stored on your hard drive, so that its easy to update ?
Using your Amiga as a webserver has always been very simple. AWS from
Omnipresence does the job amazingly well.

However, one problem still remains. For most people, each time their
Amiga connects to the Internet, their hostname changes, hence the
address of their Web Site changes.

This problem on its own removes just about any possibility of hosting
your own web site. That is, until now.

DynamicRedirection gives your dynamic site a static url. For example,
to access my local site that is stored on my harddrive, install the 3K
executable called DynamicRedirection and goto
http://www.innotts.co.uk/~nicholas/pcomm.dyn. After a couple of seconds,
you will (assuming I'm online) be staring at my very own Web Site,
served from my very own computer. Neat huh ? :-)

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This program handles connecting your browser to a dynamic IP
as transparently as possible. No downloaded code is run on your
machine whatsoever, (unlike OpenApp) so it is safe, small,
and quick. (Standard Disclaimer thou')

Basically, on a static web site, a file will be placed.
This tells DynamicRedirection where to find the real IP that
you want to go to. This is done var a finger site, then lines
down and words across. Eg, if you want MY IP, finger
nicholas@arnold.innotts.co.uk, count 3 lines down, 9 words
across and you've found it. The .DYN file also contains
an html page that is shown file its finding your new IP, so
that the user knows its working.

A dyn can be found at http://pcomm.home.ml.org/
and the dyn homepage is at http://pcomm.home.ml.org/dyn/

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                 1931    2268  85.1% -lh5- d49b Feb 19  1997 DynamicRedirection
[generic]                 3709    8974  41.3% -lh5- f766 Feb 23  1997 DynamicRedirection.Guide
[generic]                  605    1617  37.4% -lh5- 00bd Feb 20  1997 DynamicRedirection.Guide.info
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 Total         3 files    6245   12859  48.6%            Mar  3  1997