itunes recommend redirect

[bennydIrl]

I'm looking for help with masking a redirect as I want to get traffic from iTunes but I need to make a few changes (rewrites) as described below: (The following is an extract from iTunes website)

'Please note that iTunes does not provide usage statistics, because we do not host feeds or episodes. Some podcasters have created mechanisms for tracking the number of times that each episode has been downloaded. iTunes does not provide support in how to track downloads, but the following notes may be helpful:

* 302s will be followed to a depth of 5 redirects and will not update the feed URL in the directory.
* The URL before the GET-style form values (before the first?) must end in a media file extension (e.g. mp3). To work around this, the feed provider can alter their URL from this:
http://www.podcaster.com/load.php?f=&Wipeout.php
to this:
http://www.podcaster.com/load.mp3?f=&Wipeout.mp3
Notice how it says load.mp3 instead of load.php. It should be possible to accomplish this via various means, such as web server rewrites. iTunes looks at the extension of the path part of the url, i.e. the part before the"?"'

I've searched high and low (including on this site) for a way to redirect my .php download file into a 'mp3' workable format for iTunes as described above? (I want it to implement this for iTunes but also to work as normal otherwise)

The file I use is: 'podcast.php?id=1'

Any help on this one would be greatly appreciated as I've just wasted a day looking for a solution?

[edited by: jdMorgan at 1:34 am (utc) on Sep. 30, 2007]
[edit reason] unlinked [/edit]

[g1smd]

I am not familiar with that usage, but will caution that using a 302 redirect can cause severe indexing issues in Google, Yahoo, and MSN/Live.

The notes also mentioned using a rewrite instead of a redirect.

Proceed with extreme caution.

[bennydIrl]

Hi, Do you know something that might solve this problem?