Ask Bjørn Hansen writes: 

Ah, .htredirects is perfect, and already exists for parrotcode.org; Thanks! 

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> On Jul 9, 2007, at 10:44, Will Coleda wrote: 
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>> Hello, all.
>> I'm Trying to figure out how to emit an HTTP redirect instead of  
>> content.
>> Pointers to docs, examples, or which source files to poke at most  
>> appreciated: I see lib/Combust/Redirect.pm, which looks like  something 
>> I'd want, but I can't see how to invoke it from a  template file.
> 
> There are (at least) two ways - you probably want the second one.    If 
> not, then tell what you are trying to do and we'll figure it out. 
> 
> 1)  In the controller you can return $self->redirect($new_url)  instead of 
> return OK, $self->evaluate_template("template").   You  can't do that from 
> the templates (it wouldn't be hard to do; we've  just never needed it. 
> 
> 
> 2)  If Combust::Redirect is enabled, as it is for most of the sites  and 
> can be for the rest, then you can setup redirects in  the .htredirects 
> file - there's an example on the www site:
> 	http://svn.perl.org/perl.org/docs/live/www/.htredirects 
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> The syntax is
>   regexp   target_url  options 
> 
> options can be "perm", "temp" or "intern" (or shortened or longer  version 
> of that). 
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> internal gives an internal redirect (not seen by the user)
> permanent a 301 response
> temporary (the default) a 302 response. 
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