When I open the following url in browser, http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=141628727383&alt=web
It redirects to a different url http://www.ebay.com/itm/141628727383
What's the mechanism?
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1It's called ....... wait for it ........ URL rewriting – adeneo Apr 18 '15 at 16:58
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May be they are usnig tag in head...Ref http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5411538/redirect-from-an-html-page – Venkata Krishna Reddy Apr 18 '15 at 17:04
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Because it uses some kind of JS redirection:
var eULin;
window.onload = function() {
eULin = new eUL();
eULin.version = '1.4.1+1424198141014';
eULin.redirect();
}
eUL is defined in http://pages.ebay.com/link/univlink.min.js
eUL.prototype.redirect calls eUL.prototype.winRedirect, which calls location.replace. That replaces the current page with a new one, in a way that the current one won't be accessible using the back button.
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I am using jsoup to retrieve the content of the website. Is there a way to detect url that uses such kind of redirect technique and retrieve the redirected url? – jiawen Apr 18 '15 at 20:36