redirecting pages

[Sergei]

If you try this url

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/anchoraspdotnet.asp

you will lend at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/anchoraspdotnet.asp

Can anybody explain the rational behind such a design?

Thanks in advance
Sergei

 

[KMA]

well there's many conceivable reasons. For example , you run a shopping site
and you want a "Todays special offer!" page, called TSOffer.aspx. The
product on offer changes, obviously, but you don't want to copy and paste
the details from the products area to TSOffer.aspx, so you just redirect. In
other words, you have a customer friendly URL which they can remember, which
redirects to a more suitable page. Or you want to go to different pages
based upon language settings (which are read at runtime) but you want to
advertise your start page as simply "Mysite.com", not "Mysite.com/fr".

And as for server.transfers, well they are just the cherry on the icing on
the cake. Or even a drop of errant chocolate, on the cherry on the icing
etc.

 

[Karl Seguin]

They changes the framework for how navigation works on their site and want
to keep old links still working? It's both a typical and good practice.

karl