Re: your mail

[Fritz Zaucker <nospam@thanx>]

Hi Darryl

you can redefine any existing HTML-tag with WML. So something like the
following should work:

<define-tag A endtag=required>
...
<A* HREF="/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?<get-var HREF>"
%body
</A*>
...
</define-tag>

You might have to work on the quotation characters a bit, I am not sure of
hand if there might be a problem there.

The *-version of a tag refers to the "original" HTML-version of the tag.

Alternatively, you could also use mod_rewrite (if you are using Apache) to
do the redirects in your webserver. This has the advantage that when a
visitor rolls his mouse over a link he/she sees the "real" URL instead of
the whole redirection story.

Cheers,
Fritz

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Darryl Smith wrote:

> G'Day
>
> I want to set WML up so that if I have a url like
> 	<A HREF="http://www.hostname.dom/page/">a text</A>
> That it will change to
> 	<A HREF="/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?http://www.hostname.dom/page/">a
> text</A>
>
> So that I can monitor how people are using links. I think this should be
> easy... Has anyone done this before?
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
> Darryl
>
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