Re (tilly) 1: Check for JavaScript Enabled

Other people's claims notwithstanding, there is an easy way to arrange it.

Send back a page that loads fine without JavaScript, and in it include the following:

<script>
  document.replace("http://my.company.com/alternate/url");
</script>
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If they have JavaScript then they will be redirected. If not, then they won't.

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Re: Re (tilly) 1: Check for JavaScript Enabled by ignatz (Vicar) on Mar 04, 2002 at 16:36 UTC
This works fine if a user follows the path that you intended, but they don't always do that... say they get the redirected URL from a friend. In order to insure that they did you would have to make sure that they only came from the page doing the redirecting. As stated before I would recommend to code a page that sets a cookie in JavaScript and then redirects them to another page. Anyone that sees the cookie has JavaScript enabled. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ()-() ()-() \"/ DON'T BLAME ME, I VOTED FOR PACO! \"/ ` ` ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~	[reply]
Re: Re: Re (tilly) 1: Check for JavaScript Enabled by jepri (Parson) on Mar 04, 2002 at 17:00 UTC
As mentioned above, give 'em output from a POST form. That way the destination page doesn't show up in the url. More advanced tricks can be done with Apache modules, or with cookies (bad use). ____________________ Jeremy I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.	[reply]