[thelist] REDIRECT in a hurry

Mon Apr 30 13:47:55 CDT 2001

On 24.04.2001 at 21:41 Uhr, rwd at csi1st.net (Ron Dorman) wrote:

> What is the fastest way to make an index.html redirect to another page
> immediately upon access.  Temporary until other things can be fixed and
> arranged.  QUICK AND DIRTY is ok (preferred) right now.
> 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        <!--
            location.href='http://www.foo.com';
        //-->
    </script>

    <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1; URL=http://www.foo.com">
    <title>foo</title>
    <meta name="generator" content="BBEdit 6.1.1">
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

ifthe client reads javascript, hes redirected before anything has
loaded, else he's taken away with the <meta http-equiv="refresh"

hth

david