[WEB4LIB] RE: Redirect html->cgi?

[Vladislav S. Davidzon]

Yes, I should have mentioned this.  Using the META tags I suggested, the
back button does get
slightly confused ;)  It goes back to the redirect page, which then bounces
the user back to the page that the redirect points to [in this case the cgi
script] effectively disabling the back button.  I've noticed some sites that
use this technique to keep people on their site [specifically a certain
rather weird web design company whose site I visited just a few days ago...
They apparently think that if they force their customers to sit on their
site they will get more people to sign up with them... Heh, not in my case!
:].

I see no problem with putting a redirect into the Apache config files, and
if this was my server, chances are that I would use that approach.
[Actually, if you look at the kids pages that I've developed for the
Farmington Community Library at http://metronet.lib.mi.us/fcl/youth/ you
will find yourself being bounced off to our NT server at
http://www.youth.fh.metronet.lib.mi.us]


Vladislav Davidzon
Please visit my site at http://www.davidzon.com [note the Z]


> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Thomas Dowling
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 5:04 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Redirect html->cgi?
>
>
> This may in fact be the simplest approach.  However, it bears pointing out
> that some browsers (including some indexing spiders) do not honor META
> refreshes, or can be configured not to do so, and in other browsers a META
> refresh with a time of 0 seconds really messes up the back button.
>
> If this is really a permanent change, it seems more thorough and elegant
> IMO to send out a real Redirect header, and that means server
> configuration rather than HTML tagging.  I experimented a little, and it
> looks like the Apache Redirect directive should work.
>
>
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> > [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Vladislav S. Davidzon
> > Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 4:50 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Redirect html->cgi?
> >
> >
> > Why not use a link and the meta automatic reload/redirect tags?
> >
> > -vd
> >