url redirection

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url redirection - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  URL redirection
  URL forwarding
  
     <World-Wide Web> (Or "URL forwarding")
  
     When a web server tells the client browser to obtain a
     certain requested page from a different location.  This is
     controlled by directives in the server's configuration files
     or a "Location: header output by a CGI script.
  
     The web server stores all its documents in a directory tree
     rooted at some configured directory, known as its "document
     root".  Normally the URI part of the URL (the part after
     the hostname) is used as a relative path from the document
     root to the desired file or directory.  A redirect directive
     allows the server administrator to specify exceptions to this
     general mapping from URL to file name by telling the browser
     "try this URL instead".  The new URL may be on the same server
     or a different one and may itself be subject to redirection.
  
     The user is normally unaware of this process except that it
     may introduce extra delay while the browser sends the new
     request and the browser will usually display the new URL
     rather than the one the user originally requested.
  
     (1997-07-15)