Redirect issue

[phpknight]

I don't normally use redirects, but I have a page that redirects users who land at certain pages after three seconds.  It works just fine.  However, if I click the reload button on the browser before the redirect occurs (like after a second or two) then the redirect no longer happens at all.  Why is this the case?

[phpQuestioner]

what are you using to redirect - meta or javascript or server side language (php, asp, jsp, etc.)?

[phpknight]

I was using meta, but I suppose I could use PHP as well.  Would that work better?

[phpQuestioner]

Either will work if you have your script set-up the right way. I would use PHP; just to avoid the slight chance that end user does not have js or metas enabled on their browser. Plus that way you can validate the PHP global variable "$_SERVER"; too check for specific pages that you want to be redirect to/from.

[phpknight]

Okay.  But what about my original issue?  If I hit reload on the page before the three seconds expires, it never redirects after that.  Is that normal?

[phpQuestioner]

I don't know how your using your code - but if you use the below meta; then it should work fine.

 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.google.com">

 

You can reload the page as many times as you want; if you allow the page to not be reloaded for 3 seconds; the meta will redirect.

[phpknight]

Hi,

 

That is what I have.  It is not lowercase, but that is exactly what I am doing.

 

 

[phpQuestioner]

then your page will redirect to the meta's url; even if you reload it. maybe your browser has meta tags turned off. that is the only reason I could see for your meta not redirecting. it probably has to do with how your validating the landing page. post your full code and I will take a look at it.