Conditional Redirect with Javascript..

[steve0]

I found another web site has copied one of my websites.. designs, navigation, etc..

They are even linking to a javascript on my server..

What I wondering if it is possible to initiate a redirect whenever someone views
the copied site, and invokes the javascript from my server..

i.e. visitor is viewing www.badsite.com
When the javascript on my site is called..

if hostsite=badsite{
window.location="http://www.mydomain.com/
}else{
normal script functions
}


To bring them over to my site..

Make sense?

Thanks!

[weslinda]

You could do that, or you could simply change the name of the script, and that will cause a bit of havic with their sites, as long as the script is very important.

You can also close off access to the source of your pages with a script that would stop them from being able to copy your design as easily.

[stymiee]

You should consider using .htaccess' hotlink protection. That way you can block them completely and even create havoc on their website.

[weslinda]

Hey Stymiee, can you send a link or something with more information on this? This is a feature set I am not familiar with.

[stymiee]

Preventing Hotlinking with Apache mod_rewrite

Not only can you block them completely, but you can even send them bogus files. If someone is hotlinking to an image file you can send another file in its place that says they are stealing from you or worse. ;)

[weslinda]

Nice, learn something new every day. Now I can head off to bed.

[steve0]

The .htaccess is do-able.. and I can substitute a different javascript..but,

I was hoping to use the redirect in the existing file to get the visitors to my site..
since the offender is in the same market as our site.

So can anyone provide a javascript solution?

[sands]

Originally Posted by steve0

i.e. visitor is viewing www.badsite.com
When the javascript on my site is called..

if hostsite=badsite{
window.location="http://www.mydomain.com/
}else{
normal script functions
}

To bring them over to my site..

Sorry for the belated reply to this post. Somehow I missed it. Anyway if still interested try this code:

if (document.title=="The Bad Site's Title") { location.href="http://www.mydomain.com/"; }

Add it to the top of your .js file they are linking to. i.e. find out the Bad Site document title and paste it in the code above. This will redirect the visitors to Bad Site to your site if the title matches.

[martyn-it]

If you put this in the top of the JS pf it's not your sites url it will redirect to your url

if(document.domain.toLowerCase() !='www.yoururl.com') {window.location='http://www.yoururl.com'}

[sands]

Originally Posted by martyn-it

if(document.domain.toLowerCase() !='www.yoururl.com') {window.location='http://www.yoururl.com'}

Yes, this is one more option. If you want you could also have an alert popup that gives notice of the fact that Bad Site is stealing content:

if (location.href=='http://www.badsite.com') { window.alert("Warning, BadSite.com is stealing content from MyDomain.com!\nYou shall now be redirected to MyDomain.com!"); location.href="http://www.mydomain.com"; }