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    Posted: 21 May 2003 at 4:52am

I am currently developing a site which is soon to be relaunched.  However, currently there are numerous outside links to a page called bibwel.html but we will replace this page with bibwel.asp to accommodate the web wiz mailing list manager.

Therefore we need to incorporate a seamless redirect somewhere (we are running off a Windows 2000 server).  I know that we could simply still use the html page and add a link but I'm sure there must be an automatic redirect so that the user doesn't even realise that they're being redirected.

Can anyone help?  Would be grateful for any tips.  Thanks.
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Points: 23 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 May 2003 at 5:29am

Hello,

Try this page http://www.ringyding.net/redirect.html

This will redirect you to Google after 20 seconds. While you are waiting for the page to redirect you can grab the source code to see how it's done.

You can change the time to zero. Change the target. Remove all the text so the page displays nothing before the redirect.

DL

 
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Points: 14 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 May 2003 at 5:31am
thanks, I'll try this.
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Did it work?
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Points: 14 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 May 2003 at 5:39am
yes, it works!  Hoorah!  Many thanks.
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You should set at least a small timer on your redirection page, else the back button will not work past the redirection. This is something that really pisses me off when I see it :)
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Points: 1319 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 May 2003 at 11:10am

Originally posted by javaengines.dk javaengines.dk wrote:

You should set at least a small timer on your redirection page, else the back button will not work past the redirection. This is something that really pisses me off when I see it :)

That's why there is a history selector between the arrows, for you to choose how far back you want to go.
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Points: 1701 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 May 2003 at 10:05pm

Personally, I like server-side redirection better. Things like that should be transparent to users unless they are specifically expecting a set URL or the content is expected and the new page has something different. e.g. A client-side redirection should only be used for notification purposes, which often is unnecessary.

 

 
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