how to redirect - java browser

[jasonc]

I have been having members complain about my site not redirecting.

 

I have a site that members click on a link (www.site.com/?ref=1) and this in turn updates my counters and then redirects the member to a site related to the 'ref' number

 

but members using a java browser can not use this method of redirecting and i need to fin a different way to do this.

 

can anyone tell me how this is done please.

 

thanks

[saltedm8]

you could try a meta refresh although you can also use htaccess, a little friendlier to search engines, but I dont think that is what you want because you want them to 'hit' the page you are redirecting from I presume

 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://yoursite.com/yourpage.html">

 

content="2; is the amount of time in seconds before the redirect, so it says there to redirect after 2 seconds

 

also just to let you know, its javascript you are using not java, they are 2 totally separate things

[jasonc]

a few of my members use a 'Java Browser' and are not able to use my site as the redirect does not work for their browser.

 

their 'httpuseragent' is

 

Java/1.6.0_13

 

 

[haku]

Use php redirects - they are the most reliable, and the browser doesn't matter one way or another since the redirect happens on the server.