'Tweaking' telnet links

[Bill Trefzger]

Angus,
The IP of the user is a standard CGI environment variable, which means  it
is fairly straight-forward to create a script which does what you want. The
initial link would go to a script which would redirect to the desired URL,
based on the users IP. We have several implemented in PERL, but any
scripting that works in a CGI environment would work.

Many other middleware programs could also handle this. I don't have a
specific URL handy, but start browsing the perl site
(http://www.perl.com/perl/index.html) and you'll probably find numerous
examples which do similar things.

Bill

At 09:32 PM 9/17/97 -0700, Angus Waddell wrote:
>
>Hi all -
>
>Just a 'small' problem that I needed some help on if anyway has any ideas :-
>
>One of our campuses cannot access a unix box via telnet, although they 
>assure us it is not a problem at there end....so my question is
>
>Is there anyway to do something like the following via html?
>
>	if ip_address = 144.xxx.xxx.xxx then
>		<a href="telnet://some.other.server">
>	else
>		<a href="telnet://the.normal.server">
>	end	
>
>Any help would be very much appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Angus
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>Angus Waddell
>RMIT Central Library
>Systems Technical Support
>+61 3 9660 3983
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>
>

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