Re: redirect page

On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 10:15:13 -0500
"John Russell" <ve3ll@rac.ca> wrote:

> 
> http://home.cogeco.ca/~stampclub/     is a redirect page
> but in amaya it doesn't do the action.

http-equiv=refresh is not a standard method to do a redirection.
There are several other methods to do it with a http server.
Nevertheless there is an entry in the wishlist concerning http-equiv=refresh.
We can do the redirect support in Amaya, but the refreshconcerns 
mainly the libwww.

> 1] is this a philosophical thing --- we don't think it should 
> be done so it will not be

> 2] its a time resource priority issue --- it is on list but not
>    soon


> 3] it is a bug in the bug queue
> 
> oh and we are changing it to at least add a manual link 
> statement for those browsers that do not redirect automatically.. ;-] ;-]
>   //
> John Russell, VE3LL@RAC.CA
> http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll (2 L's as in LLAMA)
> check HTML at http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
> check CSS at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
> check JavaScript at http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jslint.html
> 
> 


     Irene.
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