Re: [cobalt-users] Redirections

[into it <intoitall@xxxxxxxxx>]

any thoughts on a server side browser sniffer?
--- flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 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 ;)
> 
> 
> 
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