Redirect page removal - server load?

[MikeWarner]

I have used the hack that removes the redirect pages that you get when searching, posting.....etc.

I was wondering why they were there in the first place? Is there a server load penalty by removing these pages - I guess they could act as a 1 second breather for the server.

Please let me know, as I am trying to reduce server load on my site and if removing this hack will help, I would be willing to do it.

Thanks

[Scott MacVicar]

actuallt it allows cookies to take effect
when the cookies are set they won't take effect until the next time the page is reloaded.

ie
You type in username / pass click login it then sets the cookies and thanks you for logging in, and then it takes you to the new page and the cookies have now taken effect.

[MikeWarner]

So what about the intermediate pages between posting and being taken back to the post? What does this do?

[Scott MacVicar]

those are just to inform the user that there post may not appear as it requires to be moderated.

Most of the intermediate pages are there just as a pleasantry and they add less than a kb on to your bandwidth. I keep them as it would confuse users who post a thread and then get taken to the forumdisplay and there thread isn't there.

[feldon23]

It's funny.

Not having them is one of my favorite things about vB3.

I wish there was a list of the ones that could be harmlessly removed.

I know in PHP, I've had to have redirect pages if I didn't use sleep or some other command to wait for PHP to finish moving/writing files, etc. Otherwise my image upload scripts often did not immediately list a file that was just uploaded.

[Erwin]

I've removed redirection from my forums for well over 6 months now with no ill-effects. The only confusion comes from sending PMs - users like to know that it's been successful.

[Smoothie]

No-Redirects.....