Newbie question about server requests

[digital_storm]

Hello

I'm a really newbie of webserver and what is all about settings etc.. What I am about to do is an application so I can monitor some settings online on the web. For that I have created an little standalone application running on an different server that gets all info about current settings. Why I want to have two different servers is because I dont want to "kill" my web server with to much traffic. Now to my question lets say a visitor first enter page A on webserver A can I then redirect current user (after getting information about the user) and the redirect him/her to another server with given parameters to another page on another webserver (other ip addres)?

1) Visitor enters page A on web server A
2) Webserver A gets information about the user, and redirects to another server (web server B that is using my stand alone application) with given parameters about the user.
3) Then the user will poll information from webserver B.

I hope you understand what I want to achieve.

Regards/D_S

[sgthayes]

What settings are you gathering ? Things like user-agent, screen resolutions , .. ? You don't need a seperate server for that. Please supply more details.

[euphers]

Yes, it's possible, by sending your values through the query.

You can redirect from one server to another another server all you want.

For example...

User logs into server a, www.serverA.com, server A will then do a redirect to server in the form of, www.serverB.com?username=foo.