Addressbar URL static on redirect from another ISP 1

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Hi all

Apologies if this is the wrong forum.

Have a domain name which is subject to redirection from ISP1 to a website on ISP2.

Whilst you can navigate normally around the website on ISP2, in IE6 the URL in the addressbar remains static as the original URL called from ISP1.

Under these circumstances, is there any way to force the addressbar to indicate the current page?

TIA

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[Foamcow]

It's probably displaying the site within a frame.

If using IE try right clicking, view properties.
Copy and paste the url that is displayed into your address bar.

In FF etc, simply right click and select "this frame" then choose and option for the menu.

Of course, there may be some javascript at play to stop you viewing the site outside the parent frameset.

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[ChrisRChamberlain]

Foamcow

Thanks for your reply.

The URL in page properties is the correct URL of the individual pages of the website on the ISP2 server.

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[Foamcow]

What is the actual URL?
Is it the URL of a dynamic page that pulls in content from another source such as a database or external file?

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[ChrisRChamberlain]

http://www.pdfcommander.co.uk

FI, if you click on 'FAQ' in the 'Documentation' menu option, you will see that the URL in the addressbar remains the same.

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[Vragabond]

Your site is framed. That is how frames naturally behave (or misbehave).

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Vragabond

Thanks for your reply

Any solution therefore?

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[Foamcow]

Take it out of a frameset would be the solution I'd opt for.

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[ChrisRChamberlain]

Take it out of a frameset...

Could you explain further, please?

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[Foamcow]

Ummm.

Well the site uses a frameset.
That is a group of frames that each contain a seperate HTML document.

When you click a link in the, lets say, nav frame it loads a corresponding page in the, lets say, content frame.

What I would do is abandon the frames and just create a "normal" site with no frames.

There is undoubtedly some reason the site is built using frames. If you were to tell us why then perhaps we could suggest an alternative method to achieve the same result but that would change the address bar.

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[ChrisRChamberlain]

The site uses IFRAMEs to provide header, menu on left hand side and footer.

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[Wullie]

Hi Chris,

The IFrames are unrelated, what is happening is when the domain is forwarded over to the other domain, the .co.uk is framing the whole site and this is why you keep seeing the static address bar.

Add the following code to the head section of your site:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
if (window != top) top.location.href = location.href;
// -->
</script>

Then try viewing the page and see if the address changes.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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[Fendal]

Why isn't ISP1 redirecting people straight to ISP2 ...

<script>
window.location="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.pdfcommander.net";[/URL]
</script>

Is there a reason you need to keep to url .co.uk over .net ?

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Wullie

Thanks for the code - unfortunately it makes no difference.

The static URL is irritating rather than anything else and if a major rework is the only solution, it may not be worth doing.

Fendal

I've been 'done over' by ISPs in the past who refuse to release domain names, (not their property), to alternative ISPs.

Prefer therefore to spread domain names over different ISPs to avoid getting stung again.

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[Wullie]

Wullie

Thanks for the code - unfortunately it makes no difference.

The static URL is irritating rather than anything else and if a major rework is the only solution, it may not be worth doing.

Can you put the code on the site and then let us know when it is there? The reason I say this is that there is no reason I can see that this wouldn't work, so being able to see exactly what is happening would help.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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[ChrisRChamberlain]

Wullie

Apologies, your solution works as anticipated - when I checked again I had incorrectly pasted the code within another <script></script> block.

Thanks to all for your help

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[ChrisHunt]

I've been 'done over' by ISPs in the past who refuse to release domain names, (not their property), to alternative ISPs.

Prefer therefore to spread domain names over different ISPs to avoid getting stung again.[/quote]
I've been caught by this too. My solution was not to register domains at a hosting company - with a domain+hosting package - but to register the domain myself with a domain seller like ukreg or 123reg and point it at the hosting provider's name servers.

That way I retain control of the domain, so if the hosting provider goes belly up or starts playing silly b*ggers I can easily move to somewhere else. Of course I may still be in some trouble if something happens to the domain seller (hopefully not too much because the domains are registered in my name not theirs), but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it...

-- Chris Hunt
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[Wullie]

I've been caught by this too. My solution was not to register domains at a hosting company - with a domain+hosting package - but to register the domain myself with a domain seller like ukreg or 123reg and point it at the hosting provider's name servers.

That way I retain control of the domain, so if the hosting provider goes belly up or starts playing silly b*ggers I can easily move to somewhere else. Of course I may still be in some trouble if something happens to the domain seller (hopefully not too much because the domains are registered in my name not theirs), but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it...

Thats the best way if you are comfortable doing that and want the most control. If the registrar ever did flop, then you can go straight above them to Nominet/ICANN etc to retrieve control of your domains.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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