Webmaster Info

Notes for Webmasters

Servers.: There is no extra server software needed just for GetRight. GetRight uses abilities built into most FTP and HTTP servers to download and resume downloads.
Pretty much every current HTTP and FTP server resumes just fine with GetRight.

CGI.

Using CGI to redirect to download files from another page has also caused some sites to not work as well with GetRight.
Some things you can do to make this work better with GetRight:

The Problem:

GetRight (monitoring IE) looks for embedded URLs in URLs with CGI.
GetRight will find the embedded URL in the one below, but does download the full URL instead of the embedded part.
http://www.xyz.com/download.pl?url=http://www.getright.com/setup.exe&from=home

The Solution:

Having something that is not obviously an embedded URL, then using the Refresh META tag to have the browser open another page works very well. And many places like it since there's a 2nd page shown that can contain ads :)
Sample META Refresh tag:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="4;URL=http://www.getright.com/setup.exe">
To embed a URL for the Refresh page so it won't be incorrectly found by GetRight, if you just switch the / characters to \ and back (or something similar to slightly disguise the embedded one), then GetRight won't find the embedded URL and try to do the wrong page!
http://www.xyz.com/download.pl?url=http:\\www.getright.com\setup.exe&from=home

The Gory Details Why:

With the way GetRight uses to catch clicks, the HTTP "Location:" header is handled differently in Netscape and Internet Explorer.
Netscape lets GetRight examine every redirection by a "Location:" header.
Internet Explorer lets GetRight examine the very first URL and none of the later "Location:" redirected ones. So GetRight looks a little deeper at the URL to see if it contains an embedded URL as a parameter to some CGI.
Both Netscape and Internet Explorer work just fine using the META Refresh tags.

Linking.

Of course you can link to the GetRight web site! There is a selection of Images you can use, or you can make your own.