Perhaps your users could land on the original page, which displays a message telling them they are being redirected, then after 5 seconds (or whatever) the 301 redirect kicks in and moves them to the new page.
This could easily be done with a cfheader/sleep/cflocation combo. Thanks, Eric Cobb Certified Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer http://www.cfgears.com Ian Skinner wrote: > Andy Matthews wrote: >> Well, a 301 redirect sort of means that the original file isn't there any >> more right. So that should be triggered via your 404 handler. You could >> intercept at that point and display message, along with the new location. >> >> >> andy > > Not quite. We have the 301 redirects in place so no 404 errors are > thrown. When you type in an old URL your browser gets a 301, and send > you on the correct new location. This is all good in my mind. > > But some powers that be, say "No, we must tell users they have been > redirected" What I was hoping for, but I am getting discouraged on > finding, is a simple trigger where I can simply add a message to the > page say something like "You came from zzz which now lives at yyy, > please update your information." when such a redirect occurs. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:322200 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
