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Re: TO LINK OR NOT TO LINK

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From: Gill, Kathy
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00
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With refresh set to "0" -- the back button Will Not Work -- which is a
PITA. And IMNSHO --you should always have holding pages w/redirects (and
a link on the page for browsers that don't support redirects) whenever
you change your file structure.


> ----------
> From:         Brian Pomeroy[SMTP:lunar@voicenet.com]
> The solution here (as well as in any other situation in which the
> webmaster
> needs to reroute incoming traffic) is to write a page containing a
> "refresh" meta tag.  For instance, suppose you want to send users who
> are
> trying to access www.oldurl.com to www.newurl.com; in this case you
> would
> write the following code and use it as the default home page for
> www.oldurl.com:
>
> <HTML>
>
>   <HEAD>
>     <TITLE>Home page of Old URL</TITLE>
>     <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh"
>     CONTENT="0; url=http://www.newurl.com/">
>   </HEAD>
>
>
>
> Kathy E. Gill
> Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to
> unlocking our potential.
> ~ Liane Cardes
> Microsoft Exchange: the perfect name for its users' greatest desire!
>
>
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Date: 1998/10/13
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