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Detect and redirect

Hi,
How can I do the following?
If my visitor tries to acesss a particular HTML files of my homepage DIRECTLY, say "download.html", my homepage will then automatically redirect him back to "index.html" with "download.html" being opened in the "RIGHT" frame.

Thanks in advance.
PS. Javascript answers preferred.

deepchanda

inlcude the following script at the beginning of the page download.html b4 the <body> starts

<script>

urlvar = window.location.href;
if (urlvar.search('download.html') != -1) {
window.location.href="index.html"
}

</script>

I understand that index.html is a page with all the frameset definitions in which case you can load the download.html on the right frame.

DC

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cheekycj

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cheekycj

for more indepth look into url vars check out:
http://developer.iplanet.com/viewsource/goodman_url_pass/goodman_url_pass.html

CJ

yingkit

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Hi CJ,
Can you post the some sample html files here, or tell me which file(s) should the scripts be placed at?
Moreover, whenever download.html with the following code is loaded, it causes my netscape4 to split frames continuously:
<script>
urlvar = window.location.href;
if (urlvar.search('download.html') != -1) {
window.location.href="index.html"
}
</script>
Thanks.

cheekycj

oops small problem in the code:
need to use:
<script>
urlvar = window.parent.location.href;
//or urlvar = window.parent.location.pathname;
if ((urlvar.search('download.html')) != -1) {
      alert("redirecting");
      window.location="index.html";
}
</script>

if you don't use parent... it doesn't look at the top window but the current frames location so you always found the download.html if it was loaded in that frame.

Sorry,
CJ