On 8/14/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
a) It hard redirects you, and there's absolutely no link back to where you came from. Very bad for maintenance, working on the redirect itself etc. b) It redirects you, but leaves the link back to the original redirecting page.
or (c) It hard redirects you, and there's a link back to where you came from.
Ok, what do "hard direct" and "soft redirect" mean in this context exactly? Let's take some page A which redirects to page B. They're hosted directly at wiki.org.
Currently wiki.org/A shows the content of wiki.org/B, but with a link back to A. The URL shows wiki.org/A.
You're proposing that wiki.org/A force a (server-side?) redirect to wiki.org/B, display the content of B, with a link back to A, and yet the URL shows wiki.org/B? The question is, how does MediaWiki know to show the link back if the URL is only wiki.org/B, and not wiki.org/B&red=A or something?
Forgive my ignorance, I have absolutely no idea how server side redirects work.
Steve