MLUG: Re: [MLUG] 301 redirect question
Re: [MLUG] 301 redirect question
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I'm not sure Googlebot can grok meta refresh tags.

What I ended up doing was a plain 301 redirect, but I had the PHP script
log the IP in a file.

The page that it redirects to (on the same computer) reads that file to
see where it came from, printing a explanatory message if it was
redirected.

I think this is more polite than making someone wait, and uses the 301
response to good effect.

See it in action at http://homemoviesoncd.com 

Regards,
Mark


On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:41:09PM -0600, John Engelbrecht wrote:
>    <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="5;
>    URL=http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/refresh.html";>
> 
> put that in the <HEAD> tags
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Mark Rages wrote:
> 
> > We're moving a site to a new URL. I did this with a quick and dirty 301
> > redirect ErrorPage in PHP.
> >
> > But we'd really like to have a delay, show some text, then redirect the
> > user.
> >
> > Javascript doesn't cut it; we want our name change to be recognized by
> > Googlebot.
> >
> > Any ideas?  I don't know HTTP that well.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mark
> >
> >
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