nb8nc6@gmail.com (nb8nc6) wrote in
<1127408902.759862.294560@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>:

>I received an odd request from my manager recently. He wants to
>know if we can warn users who click links that lead to external
>sites that they are leaving our site. I am arguing against this on
>several grounds, but want to understand all the technical
>possibilies. I inherited the site and it is 90% static HTML with
>some PHP and Perl applications.
>
>I can think of a few ways to do this:
[snip]

One commonly-used way to solve this is to replace all your plain HTML
links to external sites with links to a little, local (ie. on your
machine or at least inside your domain) redirector. So a link like
http://www.otherco.com/
becomes
http://www.myco.com/cgi-bin/oco-redi...ww.otherco.com

You can have the redirector either show the warning ("You are about
to leave MyCo's web site") and then automatically redirect, or have
it warn and present the real link, or whatever you like.

....Steve

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Steve van der Burg
Technical Analyst, Information Services
London Health Sciences Centre
London, Ontario, Canada
Email: steve.vanderburg@lhsc.on.ca