Posted by Nospam on 11/27/04 11:59

"jojo" <jojo.hafner@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:efgo0s$899$3@registered.motzarella.org...
> Nospam wrote:
> >>>>> I have a redirect in my htaccess to a php file, however I am trying
> >>>>> to see if the redirect works from css, by this code
> >>>>> body{background-image:url(http://www.example.com/redirect1.html);
> >>>>> should redirect to (http://www.example.com/redirect1.php); but for
> >>>>> some strange reason doesn't work in the css, does anyone know what
> >>>>> is wrong?
> >>>>>
> >>>> Is http://www.example.com/redirect1.php an image, or is it an HTML
> >>>> page?
> >>>> If it's an image, it should become the page's background image. If
it's
> >>>> just an HTML page, as I suspect it is, then the browser will try to
use
> >>>> it as a background image but fail.
> >>> It is an html page, is there any workaround to redirect to the html
page
> >>> without the browser failing?
> >>>
> >> I'm sorry, but how should this work? a browser cannot display a html
> >> page as background-*image*...
> >>
> > I meant is there an alternative way of using the html page as a
redirection
> > apart from using it as a background image?
> >
> Oh, sorry, I got you wrong than. I guessed that you want to load a
> random background-image or something like that using that php script. So
> if I got you right you are searching for a way to load a different
> document using CSS? or what exactly are you looking for? I do not really
> understand what you are planning to do, I'm sorry.
> The redirection works, no matter how is called. You can call it via the
> browsers address-bar, via any HTML-code, it doesn't matter.
> the server just recognises that something or somebody wants to get the
> file and sends the file you redirect to instead of the file which the
> browser (or whatever wanted to get the file) wanted to have... quite
> simple, I hope my explanation wasn't that complicated..
> HTH, jojo
>
> BTW: please make sure that your posting goes *behind* the quote, makes
> reading simpler if you can read from the top to the bottom instead of
> the way round... thank you!
> And please try to configure your OE better, look at the terrible quotes
> in your posts... or, would even be better, don't use OE... thanks again
;-)

my apologies for top posting. Is there a simple example of redirecting to
the php file using html , css or any other way?

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