1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 2 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head> 3 <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> 4 5 <title>Redirection</title><meta name="generator" content="amaya 8.1a, see http://www.w3.org/Amaya/" /> 6 <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head> 7 <body> 8 <h1>Redirection</h1><p>Instead of presenting information to a user when 9 that user visits a particular URL, we may instead choose to redirect 10 that user to another URL, at which there may be information to be 11 viewed. To redirect a user of an application, we can use the following 12 transaction method:</p><div class="WebStack"> 13 <h3>WebStack API - Redirection</h3> 14 <p>WebStack provides the following method in transaction objects to perform redirection:</p> 15 <dl><dt><code>redirect</code></dt><dd>This method accepts a path value 16 suitable for use in response headers indicating the location to which a 17 user shall be redirected. An optional response code (see <a href="responses.html">"Responses and Presentation"</a>) can be specified to modify the meaning of the redirection (as defined in the HTTP specifications).</dd></dl></div><p>Since the path value must be usable in response header, it is necessary to transform paths as described in the <a href="path-value-encoding.html">"Encoding and Decoding Path Values"</a> document, and an example of redirection is given in that document.</p></body></html>
