2003-12-02, 02:25 | Link #1 |
Evangelist of the Kazoo
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Question about the new redirect thing when you post...
I don't know if it's been around longer, but I just noticed today that there was some newfangled redirect thingy when I posted. I was just wondering what the advantages were to using something like that. I've seen it used in many forums, but never as frequently as its used here. If I edit a message, I get a redirect message displayed to me but it redirects me before I can even react to it. If I post a reply, I get a slightly longer redirect page. I haven't posted any new threads yet today (this is my first), but I can only assume that I'll get a redirect message when I click on that shiny "Submit" button.
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2003-12-02, 03:15 | Link #5 |
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boneyjellyfish: I think you are most definetly crazy, but I was also wondering if I had somehow been not noticing that message for the past few weeks. Then I came across your thread and was relieved to discover that I am not the only one! I also get a previously unseen message when I search. Yet another insideous sign of tampering.
Perhaps this is intended to slow down all forum users a bit, to reduce the load on the sever? Maybe it interferes with ddosers? Mb81 is probably responsible for it, so we'll have to wait for him or GHDPro to answer our query here. Until then be patient and reassured that this is not one of the symptoms of your madness.
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2003-12-02, 15:17 | Link #8 | |
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2003-12-02, 16:45 | Link #9 | |
Just call me Ojisan
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After posting and getting the message, it returns to the thread as usual but now if I hit the 'back' button on my browser it goes to the message again. It never used to do that! |
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2003-12-02, 23:15 | Link #12 | |
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I post..whether it be quick post..."reply" where it takes me to reply page...after i post it'll show up...obviously, but if i hit the back button on my browser or hit backspave to go back...it'll tkae me to the page where i was writing my reply...but my post was still there...the page just needed to be refreshed But this happenned even on the old forum...so it never bothered me... but as for the redirecting thing...it started to happen around the time boneyjellyfish started this thread...it never did this before...but now that it started it's doing it for everything...i dont find it annoying but it has been happening |
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2003-12-03, 03:00 | Link #14 | |
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2003-12-03, 03:10 | Link #15 | |
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PS. In case you're wondering why those little spirits are called brownies, which is the same name as a desert... you wouldn't wonder if you've ever eaten one. Mmmmmm!
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2003-12-03, 03:16 | Link #16 | |
Evangelist of the Kazoo
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... but if it wasn't the little elves... What have the elves been doing all of this time? *looks around nervously* ... *snap fingers* I've got it! They must have kidnapped gravitation! Only a group of malevolent little elves that work night and day could have achieved a post count like that! Last edited by boneyjellyfish; 2003-12-03 at 03:26. |
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2003-12-03, 04:18 | Link #18 |
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I believe older versions of vB needed it to update the database before displaying the page. Sometimes doing both at the same time created inaccuracies and such. I believe vB3 doesn't have that limitation, and the redirect option was left in just for user ineraction's sake.
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2003-12-03, 06:11 | Link #19 | |
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Even if the option was left in. It still needed to be turned on... and then off. It was the brownies that did it. They activated the option! Then they turned it off. They're trying to drive me insane, but it isn't working!!
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2003-12-03, 11:20 | Link #20 |
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Well I was going to try an offer an explaination, but it appears that the redirect message has gone...
I was going to put it down to bad/lazy coding (by the vBulletin coders of course, not GHDPro et al), as such redirects (using the REFRESH property of a META tag) are often put in by people who haven't fully grasped how to do proper HTTP header-based redirects (which are transparent to the user), but, it's not there any more, so perhaps either it served another function (can't think what though) which has been turned off, or maybe the code has been repaired. Sorry to bring things back on topic guys. |
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