URL redirection

URL redirection is a technique on the world wide web for making a web page available under many URLs.

URL redirection may be used to redirect a URL to a page on the same web server, for example http://www.company.example/ may be the same as http://www.company.example/index.html.

Or it may be used to redirect a URL to a web page on another web server. This is typically used when ; only the web pages at URLs using the domain are forwarded.)

In the HTTP computer Protocol (computing) used by the World Wide Web, a redirect is a response with a List_of_HTTP_status_codes beginning with 3 that induces a browser to go to another location.

To create a web page that causes the user s browser to be redirected to another page, a web programmer can use the HTML META refresh tag inside the tag. The HTTP protocol requires that the redirect be sent all by itself, without any web page data. As a result, the web programmer who is using a scripting language to redirect the user s browser to another page must ensure that the redirect is the first or only part of the response. In the popular Active Server Pages language, this can also be accomplished using the methods response.buffer=true and response.redirect http://www.newpage.com .

Wikipedia contains pages whose sole purpose is to the user s browser to a different page. They exist to allow users to enter alternate spellings or names for articles, and redirect them promptly to the article they were most likely looking for.

URL redirection services exist to shorten long URLs:

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