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Posted by kolesdz on 08/17/07 16:57
kolesdz wrote:
> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>> Scripsit kolesdz:
>>
>>> My question concerns meta-tag.
>>
>> Please ask the question in the message body, as clearly as possible.
>> No not refer to the Subject line or imply its content in the body.
>> ObHTML: The same applies in HTML authoring: <title> is necessary, <h1>
>> is almost always essential, but neither of them should be referred to
>> or implied in the rest of the content.
>>
>> So you apparently want to "Redirect to link nr 2 if link nr 1 is not
>> working". This is not possible using <meta> tags, or any HTML tags.
>>
>> The conclusion is that you should probably put two (or even more)
>> alternate links on your page, if you expect that the first one might
>> fail often. This is quite simple - and sites that offer software for
>> download often use such a tactics, perhaps offering the user a fairly
>> large list of links that all do the same thing (when they work). But
>> two, or maybe three, should normally be enough.
>>
>> Server-side, you could implement auto-redirect in a sense. Your <a
>> href="..."> would then use a URL that invokes a server-side script,
>> which accesses a URL where the content resides, and sends it to the
>> client; but if the operation fails, it could access an alternative
>> URL, etc. However, there's not much point in this, as a rule. It fails
>> when the system where the script resides is not available. And if you
>> trust that system so much that this does not matter, why don't you put
>> the content proper on that system and use simple URLs to it?
>>
> Very good idea. You solved my problem. Thanks Jukka.
> Yes, I have access to server I can trust.
> Jack
....but I can put no more than 1k contents there.
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