[WEB4LIB] Redirect and form data

[Nebeker, Birte]

You can use the meta tag with refresh:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=Ameta.htm"

which means that the current page will be refreshed in 5 seconds by
Ameta.htm.  Please note that the meta tag must be inserted in the head
of the HTML document for the old site.

Leif, Jeg er dansker, så her er en hilsen på dansk til dig.

Birte Nebeker, Electronic Services Librarian
Raritan Valley Community College, NJ
Phone: 980-526-1200 x8351 Fax: 908-526-2985
bnebeker at rvcc.raritanval.edu
Library Web: http://library.raritanval.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Leif Andersson [mailto:leif.andersson at bibl.oru.se]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 1998 12:15 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Redirect and form data


(I have searched old postings on redirection, but not found my
particular problem discussed.)

Redirection can be done in many ways.

But how if I want two things to happen:
1. First display a message that the site has moved
2. Then automatically take the visitor to the new place.

I thought I had a solution: a perl script triggered on document not
found.

But. If the visitor had filled in a form and posted, the posted data was
"lost" at the time the new cgi-script was launched.

Then I tried to put "Redirect" in an .htaccess-file to redirect to the
new cgi-script (and just skip the enlightening message I had prepared).
Didn't work either.

At least not with the Netscape 4.04 (Win95) I am using.

I think the HTTP spec is talking about browsers should repost form data
to new URL on redirection. But I could have misunderstood.

Is there a solution to this?
Btw, I am using apache (rather old: 1.1.1)

Leif
-- 
Leif Andersson, systembibliotekarie
Högskolan i Örebro, Biblioteket
SE 701 82  ÖREBRO
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