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phpjavascripthtmlhttp-redirectvisited

setting a url as visited

I have a 

<a href="my_redirect_page.php?link=mylink">my_text</a>

link on my page, and the following line in my_redirect_page.php:

header("Location: ".$mylink);

but after the redirection, if I click on back in my browser, the "my_text" for the link does not appear as visited (in purple, instead of blue). How do I work around this? Is there a way to change the visited property in php or javascript?

Thanks,

Dave

Solution

  • Not a terrific solution, but, in my_redirect_page.php:

    <html>
<head>
<title>Redirecting...</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=<?php echo $_GET['link']; ?>">
</head>
<body>
Redirecting to <?php echo html_entities( $_GET['link'] ); ?>.<br>
If you are not redirected, <a href="<?php echo $_GET['link']; ?>">click here</a>.
</body>
</html>

    Or something like that - the Page should load (thereby entering into the browser history) and then, with a delay of 0, load the targeted URL. Should, for some reason, the redirect fail, the user will see a page containing a link to the targeted URL.