Re: [cobalt-users] Redirections

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, into it wrote:

> watch out when using the meta refresh...
> 
> there is a good chance you will trap viewers in porno
> site syndrome...

if you want to get fancier, you can use a cgi to print out the 
redirect, after looking at the referrer tag to see wheere they came from..

> 
> currently i am w orking on a server side browser
> sniffer redirect  and need help...

I'd look at a web stats package, many of them break down the browser into 
field to provide some information about what kind of browsers were used to
look at sites...keep in mind that several browsers lie about themselves
for backwards compatability, and the search engines do stranger stuff
still..

I wouldn't abandon java alltogether, at a minimum the unwillingness of a
browser to run a javascript fragment tells you something about it's
version/capabilities, tiny framesets will too, as will cookie data..

Someone else said:
> > <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1;
> > URL=http://www.abc.com";>

Note, the above is actully backwards for what the original poster wanted
eg: www.abc.com -> www.abc.com/somepath
as shown it goes around in a lethel loop -/

better solution would have been a .htaccess file with a sitewide redirect
command in it ;)