Auto Redirect

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Dave C

I have set up an assisted communication device on a computer using FrontPage
and a touch screen monitor for my special needs grandson. I run the FrontPage
website on my hard drive because when I tried it on the web the delayed
response time was unacceptable. I found some Flash based games on a website
that I have incorporated into this that runs in an embedded Flash player on a
page. I had to add these pages to an existing website I have so that my
browsers popup blocker would work to stop an unwanted popup link at the start
of the Flash program. So my problem is that I would like to set up an auto
redirect back to the home page on my hard drive after a predetermined time
limit. The html redirect I use on all the other pages running on my computer
does not work from the web, back to my hard drive. So is there any coding I
can add to the page to do this, or a setting in the browser I could change to
allow this to work, or is this the impossible dream? For the time being I
have set up a Java Back button on the page that works to get me back to the
page on my computer with the link to the web page but that is not a
practical solution for the long run. If I had to I could live with a timed
browser back command.
 
S

Stefan B Rusynko

Set a meta tag to redirect in the Head section of the page
- the refresh time is in seconds (so example below is 10 minutes)

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="600; URL=path/index.htm">

You could optionally also add a JavaScript timed redirect
- See http://grizzlyweb.com/webmaster/javascripts/redirection.asp


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SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
"Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
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I have set up an assisted communication device on a computer using FrontPage
and a touch screen monitor for my special needs grandson. I run the FrontPage
website on my hard drive because when I tried it on the web the delayed
response time was unacceptable. I found some Flash based games on a website
that I have incorporated into this that runs in an embedded Flash player on a
page. I had to add these pages to an existing website I have so that my
browsers popup blocker would work to stop an unwanted popup link at the start
of the Flash program. So my problem is that I would like to set up an auto
redirect back to the home page on my hard drive after a predetermined time
limit. The html redirect I use on all the other pages running on my computer
does not work from the web, back to my hard drive. So is there any coding I
can add to the page to do this, or a setting in the browser I could change to
allow this to work, or is this the impossible dream? For the time being I
have set up a Java Back button on the page that works to get me back to the
page on my computer with the link to the web page but that is not a
practical solution for the long run. If I had to I could live with a timed
browser back command.
 
D

Dave C

Stefan thanks for the reply. The meta tag doesn't work because the index page
is on my hard drive and the page I am comming from is on the web. I did solve
the problem though. I played around with some java and came up with a
setTimeout history back command the works fine.
 
T

Tom Willett

Java or Java Script?
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Tom [Pepper] Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage Since 1997
---------------------------
: Stefan thanks for the reply. The meta tag doesn't work because the index
page
: is on my hard drive and the page I am comming from is on the web. I did
solve
: the problem though. I played around with some java and came up with a
: setTimeout history back command the works fine.
:
: "Stefan B Rusynko" wrote:
:
: > Set a meta tag to redirect in the Head section of the page
: > - the refresh time is in seconds (so example below is 10 minutes)
: >
: > <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="600; URL=path/index.htm">
: >
: > You could optionally also add a JavaScript timed redirect
: > - See http://grizzlyweb.com/webmaster/javascripts/redirection.asp
: >
: >
: > --
: >
: > _____________________________________________
: > SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
: > "Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
: > _____________________________________________
: >
: >
: > I have set up an assisted communication device on a computer using
FrontPage
: > and a touch screen monitor for my special needs grandson. I run the
FrontPage
: > website on my hard drive because when I tried it on the web the delayed
: > response time was unacceptable. I found some Flash based games on a
website
: > that I have incorporated into this that runs in an embedded Flash player
on a
: > page. I had to add these pages to an existing website I have so that my
: > browsers popup blocker would work to stop an unwanted popup link at the
start
: > of the Flash program. So my problem is that I would like to set up an
auto
: > redirect back to the home page on my hard drive after a predetermined
time
: > limit. The html redirect I use on all the other pages running on my
computer
: > does not work from the web, back to my hard drive. So is there any
coding I
: > can add to the page to do this, or a setting in the browser I could
change to
: > allow this to work, or is this the impossible dream? For the time being
I
: > have set up a Java Back button on the page that works to get me back to
the
: > page on my computer with the link to the web page but that is not a
: > practical solution for the long run. If I had to I could live with a
timed
: > browser back command.
: >
: >
: > .
: >
 

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