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Music Head · #1 Post by **Music Head** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:40 am

I was wondering how do i make a redirect page. You know a page the just sends you off to another in 2seconds or so.

PS. I don't wanna hear about how redirect pages are annoying

Thanks

Spikey · #2 Post by **Spikey** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:41 am

redirect pages are annoying

JWar · #3 Post by **JWar** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:44 am

Put this between the <head> tags in the redirect page:

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="2;url=http://www.domain.com/link.html"> where 2 is the amount of seconds before the page is refreshed.

Music Head · #4 Post by **Music Head** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:51 am

Cool stuff, Thanks

Spikey SHUT-UP

Pidgeot · #5 Post by **Pidgeot** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:54 am

It's a good idea to also include a link to the target page, in case the user has disabled META REFRESH commands, or is using a browser that doesn't support it.

Spikey · #6 Post by **Spikey** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:13 am

Jk

JayWar yesterday I was in Delft at an OW party in the Boothuis or something like that.

Charlemagne · #7 Post by **Charlemagne** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:04 am

Redirects using <meta> tags are are the spawn of purest evil!

I really, really, really hate being "redirected to a new page in 5 seconds".

Seriously, though, it's a Very Bad Thing to redirect that way because it breaks the browser's "Back" button. You should use HTTP redirects instead.

Pidgeot · #8 Post by **Pidgeot** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:48 am

However, it's the only way if you don't have access to server configuration to setup those things. And unless you actually own the server, there's a good chance you don't.

JWar · #9 Post by **JWar** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:02 pm

Ofcourse it´s a very very VERY vErY Bad Idea (tm) to do that, but there´s just no other way I can see that does it. Plus, a http redirects don´t allow you to post a ´Dude... we like... yunno... kinda, like, moved the site and we, like, wanted to let ya know...´ message. (course, you could do this as a message on the true site, but hey, don´t want to bother the people following the new link with that kinda stuff)