Using a URL as an abbreviation

[418928]

Hi everybody,

I have a certain document in a URL X quite difficult to remember and
write. So I want to provide a shortcut to it (let's call this Y). My
current solution is the following. In the html page pointed to by Y, I
write:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"
CONTENT="0;
URL=X"
This works well. However, I'm not sure if all the web browsers will
understand this (I tried with Explorer and Opera) and whether this is
the best way of achieving my purpose.

Thanks in advance for any suggestion,
Sergio

 

[J.O. Aho]

Hi everybody,

I have a certain document in a URL X quite difficult to remember and
write. So I want to provide a shortcut to it (let's call this Y). My
current solution is the following. In the html page pointed to by Y, I
write:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"
CONTENT="0;
URL=X"

This works well. However, I'm not sure if all the web browsers will
understand this (I tried with Explorer and Opera) and whether this is
the best way of achieving my purpose.

Most browsers does understand meta tag redirections, you can also use the
header() function in PHP (server side scripting language), but the the best
may be to do this at the server level, but quite few has the privilege to do
so, so your method is really a okey way to do it, as long as you include the
ending ">" (if using xhtml, "/>") to the tag.

 

[David Dorward]

I have a certain document in a URL X quite difficult to remember and
write. So I want to provide a shortcut to it (let's call this Y).

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"

http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback

 

[Toby A Inkster]

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"
CONTENT="0;
URL=X"

This works well. However, I'm not sure if all the web browsers will
understand this (I tried with Explorer and Opera) and whether this is
the best way of achieving my purpose.

It is a better idea to use HTTP redirects by sending a "301 Permanent
Redirect" header.

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[418928]

Hi David,

http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback

Interesting... but where should I type the Apache's redirect
directive? I'm confused about that. I only have access to my
directory, not to the global Apache's configuration. Is that a problem
for this?

Thanks in advance,

 

[J.O. Aho]

Hi David,


Interesting... but where should I type the Apache's redirect
directive? I'm confused about that. I only have access to my
directory, not to the global Apache's configuration. Is that a problem
for this?

if the system admin has enabled htaccess, you just place it in the .htaccess
in the directory where the file should have been. You can read more about it
at http://wsabstract.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

 

[418928]

if the system admin has enabled htaccess, you just place it in the .htaccess

in the directory where the file should have been. You can read more about it
athttp://wsabstract.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

Thanks, that's very useful. But I think the use of .htaccess is not
enabled, as I cannot get any of its functionalities. Is there any way
I can know if htaccess is enabled or not (other than seeing that it
seems not to work)?

Sergio