KB152998 - How to Use gdsset to Change Host Pointer

Article ID: 152998

Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005

Microsoft Internet Information Server 1.0

This article was previously published under Q152998

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SUMMARY

When you create tag files for your Gopher server, you may have to change the host name that the tag returns to the client. This article explains the correct gdsset syntax for creating tag files with different host names.

For additional information on tag files and how to create a generic tag file, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

142559 Creating Tag Files for IIS Gopher Service

MORE INFORMATION

You are connecting to your Gopher server, gopher.server.edu. If you created tag files for your server contents without the -h parameter, the tag files were created with just your host name; therefore, any attempt to access a tagged item will return host name instead of the fully qualified domain name.

In those cases, to correct this problem, the tag file must be changed to return "gopher.server.edu". The syntax for gdsset.exe is shown below.

To create a tag file pointing to a different host name

For a file:
"gdsset -l -s \filename -g0 -f "friendly name" -hgopher.server.edu filename". Your host name for the tag should then show gopher.server.edu.

For a directory: "gdsset -l -s \directory -g1 -f "friendly name" -hgopher.server.edu \directory". Your host name for the tag should then show gopher.server.edu.

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