Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I have a web page, that redirects to the desired destination url using:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=$destination.url" />
I would like to avoid the first page being in the browser history.
In particular, in mobiles (Android, iOS, etc) I would like the back button to skip the redirecting page.
Your two options are to either use a real HTTP redirect, or to use JavaScript’s
location.replace.The former is better, but if there’s some reason you can’t do it,
location.replacecan work as an alternative:location.replaceactually replaces the current location in the browser history, so the back button will not go back to the redirection page. If you do this you may also want to include a meta refresh with a short timeout as a fallback if you expect any of your users to not have JavaScript.