[Mapserver-users] shorter URLs??

[Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerry Creager N5JXS [mailto:gerry.creager at tamu.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 5:32 PM
> To: mapserver
> Subject: [Mapserver-users] shorter URLs??
> 
> 
> Is there a clean way (besides the tinyURL site) to define defaults 
> within a mapserver "operation"?  In other words, the URL for 
> the Current 
> weather at http://mesonet.tamu.edu is scaring folks.  Is 
> there a way to 
> define some defaults so the URL is shorter and not so scarey? 
>  I recall 
> seeing something about this, but my (admittedly less than exhaustive) 
> search of the archives didn't show it up.
> 

You could try forcing redirection via your web server's configurtion (i.e.
Apache has a "Redirect" configuration directive), or in the head of your
HTML to refresh a page (i.e. 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/">

Hope this helps.

..Tom

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Tom Kralidis
Systems Scientist
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Tel: (613) 947-1828
http://www.cgdi.ca/
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> Thanks
> Gerry
> -- 
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