John said:
Hi, if someone goes to a particular page on my web site, how can I make it
so another page is automatically loaded instead of the original page?
Depends. Do you have server-side scripting? If not, then something like
this may be required:
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html>
<head>
<script>
window.location.replace("
http://www.example.org/page2.html");
</script>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh"
content="0;url=
http://www.example.org/page2.html">
<title>Redirection</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Redirection</h1>
<p>Your browser should have been redirected automatically, but if you
are reading this, then it hasn't worked. Oh well, here is <a
href="
http://www.example.org/page2.html">the page I would like you to
visit</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>
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This uses three techniques to redirect the user. The <meta> tag should be
99% reliable, but for those browsers that don't support it, we add a basic
text link.
We add JavaScript, because it tends to redirect straight away, whereas
with the <meta> tag, browsers tend to wait for the entire page to load
before redirection.
Of course, none of this is as good as using proper HTTP headers, so if you
have some kind of server-side scripting capabilities, let us know,
including which scripting languages your server supports.
