Technique for making a Web page available under more than one URL address
For URL redirection on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Redirect.
URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, is a World Wide Web technique for making a web page available under more than one URL address. When a web browser attempts to open a URL that has been redirected, a page with a different URL is opened. Similarly, domain redirection or domain forwarding is when all pages in a URL domain are redirected to a different domain, as when wikipedia.com and wikipedia.net are automatically redirected to wikipedia.org.
URL redirection is done for various reasons:
for URL shortening;
to prevent broken links when web pages are moved;
to allow multiple domain names belonging to the same owner to refer to a single web site;
to guide navigation into and out of a website;
for privacy protection (such as redirecting YouTube and Twitter links to Invidious and Nitter respectively or to turn AMP links into normal links); and
for hostile purposes such as phishing attacks or malware distribution.
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TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service...
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zero (or a very low value), meta refresh can be used as a method of URLredirection. This feature was originally introduced by Netscape Navigator 1.1 (circa...
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shared web hosting service only offering HTTP (which may itself be a URLredirection service). As well as being easily remembered, vanity domains (especially...
using different URLs. Some search engines give a higher rank to results where the keyword searched for appears in the URL. URLredirection is the taking...
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moved or deleted. In the first case, it is better to employ URL mapping or URLredirection by returning a 301 Moved Permanently response, which can be...
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domain holder might also choose to redirect a domain to another website it has registered, either through URLredirection, domain cloaking or by pointing...
action to complete the request. Many of these status codes are used in URLredirection. A user agent may carry out the additional action with no user interaction...
be redirected with a fast Meta refresh command to another page. Other forms of redirection include use of JavaScript and server side redirection, from...
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