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James Cridland · #**234** 07-21-2002, 01:32 PM

What might be interesting is to check for Google - or "search" - in the referrer, and don't give a <META REFRESH, but properly redirect them to the proper version of the page automatically.

That means that Google won't be given the changed location when it spiders, but any normal user, following a Google search, will get the proper redirect.

You can do this by...

1. Changing $refresh=0 to $refresh=1

2. Find $forwarding=1

Replace:

PHP Code:


			
            $forward= "<script language=\"javascript\">document.location.href='$forumURL/showthread.php?threadid=$threadID';";

            $forward.= "document.write('<font face=verdana,arial size=2><b><center>Please wait while the new version is loading...</center></b></font><br>&nbsp;<br>');</script>";

            $metas="<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"REFRESH\" CONTENT=\"0;$forumURL/showthread.php?threadid=$threadID\"></head><body></body></html>";

            $forwarding=1;

with

PHP Code:


			
header ("Location: $forumURL/showthread.php?threadid=$threadID");

exit;

3. Just above that chunk of text, find

PHP Code:


			
if ((!stristr(getenv(HTTP_REFERER),$homeURL)) or (strlen(getenv(HTTP_REFERER)) < 1)) {

with

PHP Code:


			
if ((!stristr(getenv(HTTP_REFERER),"text")) or (strlen(getenv(HTTP_REFERER)) < 1)) {

where text is a bit from your URL. I.e. if you're hosted on www.mydomain.com then put "mydomain" in there.

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