Redirect to Home Page

[OC]

Hi - I would appreciate some help with a script. I know I've seen something
like it but didn't need it at the time, and now I can't find it. It seems
there are some links on other websites that point to a page other than my
index.htm page. If a viewer tries to enter my site on certain pages, I would
prefer to redirect them to http://www.mywebsite.com/index.htm. How do I do
that without completely klutzing up navigation between pages within my
website? I am not using any FRAMES pages. Thanks, ~OC~

[kaeli]

Re: Redirect to Home Page

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> Hi - I would appreciate some help with a script. I know I've seen something
> like it but didn't need it at the time, and now I can't find it. It seems
> there are some links on other websites that point to a page other than my
> index.htm page. If a viewer tries to enter my site on certain pages, I would
> prefer to redirect them to http://www.mywebsite.com/index.htm. How do I do
> that without completely klutzing up navigation between pages within my
> website? I am not using any FRAMES pages. Thanks, ~OC~
>
>
>[/color]

These sorts of scripts are best done on the server-side by checking the
document referrer and doing a redirect. You can do it with JS, too, but it
won't work for non-JS enabled clients and it takes more time (often
negligable, but not always), since the client has to essentially load two
pages instead of one.

Not that I agree with the concept, FWIW. I find redirects extremely
irritating on most sites that use them. Usually takes me forever to find the
page I was interested in again. YMMV, as I have no clue what your site is or
who uses it. :)

HTH

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