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Skip Redirect

Skip diverse redirects.






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anonymous_user user
Posted Apr 11, 2008

Ok thanks for the tip Kim.

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Kim A. Brandt script's author
Posted Apr 11, 2008

That's the intended behaviour which you're describing. I guess the name `Skip Redirect' is a bit misleading. You can better think of `Control Redirect'.

You can easily get the behaviour you want by editing the source of the script. Remove the `metaRefresh()' function and meta refreshes will work everywhere.

Personally I don't like automatic redirects, I rather want to click my way through the web.

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anonymous_user user
Posted Apr 10, 2008

Another site is DivShare. Skip Redirect causes a download link not to redirect to the download page:

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/7041/sshot9b...

Then it causes the download not to automatically start:

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/328/sshot10o...

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anonymous_user user
Posted Apr 10, 2008

Well at FileForum/BetaNews, Skip Redirect prevents the download from automatically starting. You have to click one of the links:

http://i32.tinypic.com/2m2xhnb.png

And at forums like Mozillazine, Skip Redirect prevents the page from going back to the topic after replying:

http://i27.tinypic.com/2dir59e.png

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Kim A. Brandt script's author
Posted Apr 10, 2008

What exactly needs fixing? For me everything works fine!?

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anonymous_user user
Posted Apr 8, 2008

This script needs to be fixed to allow FileForum/BetaNews. Also forums such the MozillaZine Forums use redirects.

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