Redirect help

[jfcalderon]

I want to capture the Time gadget of the week page:

http://www.time.com/time/gadget/
this week it redirects to:
http://www.time.com/time/gadget/20040804/

But I get a empty file. Is there a configuration to be made to iSiloX to get the page converted each week?

Regards


Fernando

[Voltage Spike]

Could you post your .ixl file for us? It works fine when I attempt to convert the page using iSiloX 4.05 (previous versions did not support the meta/refresh trick).

[jfcalderon]

Attached are the IXL file (inside the zip) and the error log.

[Voltage Spike]

Congratulations! You appear to have discovered a bug in either the Time web site or iSilo (I don't know enough about the Refresh hack to say one way or the other).

In case the developers haven't looked at it:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;
URL=/time/gadget/20040804/">

The Time web site expects the new URL to be relative to the old one. iSilo expects the new URL to be absolute.

Sorry, jfcalderon.

[jfcalderon]

And now what to do?

Regards

Fernando

[Voltage Spike]

The people at iSilo are very responsive to end-user issues. I wouldn't be surprised if they addressed this issue in the next version of the beta.

Of course, they may just as easily come back and explain why the Time web site is incorrect in its design. I wouldn't worry about that, however, as iSilo tends to "just make it work".

[iSilo]

Version 4.1, which has just been released addresses the refresh relative URL issue. Please give it a try.