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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:02:11 +0100
From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk>
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Using a MOTD

On 02.02.09 18:00, dan_b@comcast.net wrote:
> Thanks gentlemen. I'll look into that. Appreciate the help! 

be careful what to do with people that have cookies disabled. You shouldn't
redirect them always to the MOTD.

> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Andr� Warnier <aw@ice-sa.com> wrote: 
> Right-o. You can use RewriteCond in the httpd.conf file to check for 
> the cookie, and only apply the rewrite rule if the cookie is not 
> present (i.e., it's value is an empty string). The rewrite rule can 
> then redirect to the MOTD page, and use the [co] flag on the rule to 
> set the cookie. 
> 
> So I think that's what you're looking for. As far as I can imagine, 
> there's no way to reliably redirect one request per session without 
> using cookies, but that doesn't mean you have to use perl, if you 
> don't want. 

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