The same technique is also used by some corporate websites to implement a statement that the subsequent content is at another site, and therefore not necessarily affiliated with the corporation. As this added request will leave a trace in the server log, revealing exactly which link was followed, it can also be a privacy issue. This technique bears the downside of the delay caused by the additional request to the original website's server. Instead of sending the visitor straight to the other site, links on the site can direct to a URL on the original website's domain that automatically redirects to the real target. This information can be captured in several ways. This is because the visitor's browser has no need to communicate with the original server when the visitor clicks on an outgoing link. They do not, however, log which links visitors left by. The access logs of most web servers keep detailed information about where visitors came from and how they browsed the hosted site. Also, in the next search engine pass, the search engine should detect and use the newer URL. By using a 'moved permanently' redirect to the new URL, visitors will still end up at the correct page. They often have the older/outdated domain names and links in their database and will send search users to these old URLs. These links might be from other sites that have not realized that there is a change or from bookmarks/favorites that users have saved in their browsers. With URL redirects, incoming links to an outdated URL can be sent to the correct location. an author might move their individual pages to a new domain.a site might desire, or need, to change its domain name.Web pages may be redirected to a new domain for three reasons: This technique is often used to 'reserve' other top-level domains (TLD) with the same name, or make it easier for a '.edu' or '.net' site to accommodate users who type '.com'. Organizations often register these 'misspelled' domains and redirect them to the 'correct' location. A website operator may decide to serve such requests by redirecting the browser to the HTTPS variant instead and hopefully also priming HSTS for future accesses.Ī user might mistype a URL. Otherwise the website will be contacted over HTTP. There are several reasons to use URL redirection:Ī website may potentially be accessible over both a secure HTTPS URI scheme and plain HTTP (an insecure URI beginning with ' If a user types in a URI or clicks on a link that refers to the insecure variant, the browser will automatically redirect to the secure version in case the website is contained in the HSTS preload list shipped with the application or if the user had already visited the origin in the past. 2.3 Refresh Meta tag and HTTP refresh header.2.2.2 Using server-side scripting for redirection.2.2.1 Example HTTP response for a 301 redirect.1.6 Meaningful, persistent aliases for long or changing URLs.

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