README.redirect

gatling can do HTTP redirects.

To do it, create a symlink like this:

  $ ln -s http://www.google.com/ search.html

Then, if someone tries to access search.html via HTTP, gatling will
detect the special broken symlink and send the user a HTTP redirect to
www.google.com.

To redirect an URL ending in /, create that directory and create a
symlink as above for index.html.



UPDATE: gatling can now also do fallback redirects.  If you have a farm
of mirrors, all replicating off a central one, you can tell gatling to
not generate 404s on the mirrors, but redirects.
SUPPORT_FALLBACK_REDIRECT must be #defined in gatling.c for this to be
compiled in.

If, for example, you run on your mirror machine

  gatling -r http://fallback.example.com

and someone requests

  http://mirror.example.com/notyetuploaded.html

gatling will generate a temporary redirect to

  http://fallback.example.com/notyetuploaded.html