(keitai-l) Re: User Agent Redirection - performance

From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings_at_roundpoint.com>
Date: 01/22/01
Message-ID: <JGEMKINHOOBEFEDLJPKOEECJCAAA.ben.hutchings@roundpoint.com>
Darlington wrote:

> Am I correctly understanding you can't redirect the P501 by means of
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=whatever.html"> ?
> 
> I actually assumed you couldn't redirect _any_ iMode phones by this means.
> Why? Because I came across precisely this redirect method at
> www.imodelinks.com to keep _non-phones_ out of the actual links section
> (redirects you to desktop.html). They hardly want to redirect all 
> non-P501's to desktop.html...

That tag is non-standard, but happens to be supported by most of the
desktop browsers.

The standard way to redirect is for the server to send an HTTP status
code of, I think, 301 or 302, depending on the reason for redirection.

Ben.

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Received on Mon Jan 22 20:07:14 2001