[thelist] Viewing content of HTML redirect

Mon Mar 24 14:01:47 CDT 2008

Julian Rickards scribeva in 2008-03-24 19:35:
> If you go to http://ontario.ca/mininglands, there seems to be a bit of a
> pause as the redirect takes you to

For me it seems pretty instantaneous.

> http://www.mndm.gov.on.ca/mndm/mines/lands/default_e.asp. It is my belief
> that the redirect is an HTML redirect (and not a server-based one) because
> of the pause.

Belief != knowledge

The pause is because the browser has to get the new page before it can 
show it.

> Is there anyway of viewing the redirect page before it quickly disappears?

For example:

$ curl -i http://ontario.ca/mininglands
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: IBM-PROXY-WTE/5.0.2
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:52:46 GMT
Location: 
http://www.keywords.gov.on.ca/mbs/keywords/keywords.nsf/redirect?readform&kywrd=mininglands
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 383
Last-Modified: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:52:46 GMT

<html>
<head>
<title>
Redirection</title>
</head>
<body>
<H1>Redirection</H1>This document can be found<A 
HREF="http://www.keywords.gov.on.ca/mbs/keywords/keywords.nsf/redirect?readform&kywrd=mininglands">elsewhere.</A><P>You 
see this message because your browser does not support automatic 
redirection handling. <P><HR><ADDRESS><A HREF="/">Back to 
home</A></ADDRESS></body>
</html>

.k