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itnerd · #1 12-17-2004

Hi,

Please let me know your thoughts/sugesstions about the new London IT Directory @ itnerd.com (http://www.itnerd.com)

Thanks,
Imran.

Marcia · #2 12-19-2004

The links are all redirected through a script.

itnerd · #3 12-20-2004

Sorry not sure what you mean or what your point is? The itnerd.com site is an IT Directory which contains business listings, when you click on a business listing, it goes of to the relevant advertisers site. Simple and sweet.

Marcia · #4 12-20-2004

OK. when you click on a listing, it doesn't go directly to the site - it first goes through a script on the itnerd.com site with a 302 redirect. The links aren't direct links to the sites listed - they look like this when you run them through a header checker

Quote:

URL = http://www.itnerd.com/cgi-bin/pseek/go.cgi?id=3378
UAG = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
AEN =
FMT = AUTO
REQ = GET
Sending request:
GET /cgi-bin/pseek/go.cgi?id=3378 HTTP/1.0
Host: www.itnerd.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

• Finding host IP address...
• Finding TCP protocol...
• Binding to local socket...
• Connecting to host...
• Sending request...
• Receiving response...

Total bytes received = 384
Elapsed time so far: 2 seconds
Header (Length = 181):
HTTP/1.1·302·Found(CR)
(LF)
Date:·Mon,·20·Dec·2004·18:43:16·GMT(CR)
(LF)
Server:·Apache/1.3.33(CR)
(LF)
Location:·http://www.vivamex.com/(CR)
(LF)
Connection:·close(CR)
(LF)
Content-Type:·text/html;·charset=iso-8859-1(CR)
(LF)
(CR)
(LF)

Content (Length = 203):
<!DOCTYPE·HTML·PUBLIC·"-//IETF//DTD·HTML·2.0//EN">(LF)
<HTML><HEAD>(LF)
<TITLE>302·Found</TITLE>(LF)
</HEAD><BODY>(LF)
<H1>Found</H1>(LF)
The·document·has·moved·<A·HREF="http://www.vivamex.com/">here</A>.<P>(LF)
</BODY></HTML>(LF)

Done
Elapsed time so far: 2 seconds

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Location: line in the header above would redirect your browser to a new URL:

Location 2
Parameters:
URL = http://www.vivamex.com/
UAG = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
AEN =
FMT = TXT
REQ = GET
Sending request:
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.vivamex.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

• Finding host IP address...
• Finding TCP protocol...
• Binding to local socket...
• Connecting to host...
• Sending request...
• Receiving response...

Total bytes received = 5156
Elapsed time so far: 2 seconds
Header (Length = 226):
HTTP/1.1·200·OK(CR)
(LF)
Date:·Sat,·18·Dec·2004·08:45:19·GMT(CR)
(LF)
Server:·Apache/1.3.31·(Unix)·mod_perl/1.29(CR)
(LF)
Content-Type:·text/html(CR)
(LF)
X-Cache:·MISS·from·www50.hway.net(CR)
(LF)
Age:·208674(CR)
(LF)
X-Cache:·HIT·from·www50.hway.net(CR)
(LF)
Connection:·close(CR)
(LF)
(CR)
(LF)

Content (Length = 4930):
<html>(LF)
(LF)
<head>(LF)
(LF)
<meta·name="description"·content="Data·warehousing ,·SAP,·data·management·and·data·migration·consulta nts·and·bespoke·developers·with·18·years·experienc e.···London·Based.···Complete·end·to·end·projects· or·individual·assignments·welcome.">(LF)
<meta·name="keywords"·content="Vivamex,·London,·re cruitment,·management,·consultancy,·Oil,·Petrochem ical,·Pharmaceutical,·Government,·Agencies,·Teleco mmunications,·Tax,·Data,·Warehouse,·Warehousing,·S AP,·Model,·Modelling,·MS·Access,·Access,·C#,·.Net, ·C++,·UK,·London,·SAP,·corporate,·Warehouses,·migr ation,·C,·sharp,·Excel,·Access,·Visual·Basic,·star ,·schema,·database,·design,·build,·Oracle,·DSS,·Ag ent,·Business,·Objects,·Web,·intelligence,·bespoke ,·development,·programmers,·E-FIT,·Crimewatch,·UK,·Phusis,·cleanse,·programme,·p olice,·microstrategy,·AFD,·address,·sarbanes,·oxle y,·sox">(LF)
·(LF)
·(LF)
(LF)
<title>Data·Management·Consultants·-·Home·Page</title>(LF)
<base·target="_parent">(LF)
</head>(LF)
(LF)

If you go through both the Yahoo and Google Search forums, you'll see that there have been some problems with 302 redirects so that needs looking into further. There's a difference between those and links direct to sites that aren't redirected.

orion · #5 12-21-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by itnerd

Hi,

Please let me know your thoughts/sugesstions about the new London IT Directory @ itnerd.com ***.itnerd.com

Thanks,
Imran.

Hi, itnerd.

I little reminder that the Beta Test section is not for reviewing sites. We are trying to keep this section free from site reviews as this is a section for beta testing/reviewing tools/softwares/products (one per thread). See the FOR REVIEWERS AND SUBMITTERS thread.

Feel free to specify what is exactly you want us to review. If there is nothing to review I would assume this thread should be closed.

Orion

orion · #6 12-21-2004

I'm closing this thread. Reasons: No specific tool/software/product to be reviewed.

Orion

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