Refresh throws me to another page?

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Refresh throws me to another page?

Why?

D_Blackwell

3:58 pm on Aug 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

I was looking for an updated page in Firefox. Refreshing throws me to the home page. I'm seeing the update in IE, but still not in Firefox. Both browsers kick me to the home page when reloading. Why?

klogger

6:20 pm on Aug 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

Sounds like you have a bit of code that is making you go to the home page. Maybe a frameset that has a frame bouncer in the JavaScript and forces you to the index page because you haven't entered into the frameset.

Maybe posting the code would help - cache can be cleared in Frefox by:

Tools => Options => provacy => clear all

or if you have the developers toolbar:

Miscellaneous => clear cache.

D_Blackwell

7:29 pm on Aug 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

I rarely use frames, so don't know a lot about them. You look to be right on target with your assessment. I am interested because I'm checking on a link exchange.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">

Their link page shows PR4. But - the URL in this frame is not the same as who I am exchanging with - though the "correct" URL shows in the address bar. They are redirecting their old domain to the new one. The "actual (old)" domain and page show PR2.

All of the pages, including the Home page, are set up this way, with only the domain name showing in the address bar.

Which leads me to a new question. Am I getting the PR4 value of the site I "see" or the PR2 value of the site that is redirected, or both?

klogger

12:16 am on Aug 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

I am not an expert in link exchange but my guess would be you get the PR of the page your link is on and the frameset part is irrelevant - so my guess is you get the PR2. Maybe someone else could clarify?

tedster

2:53 am on Aug 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

This is rapidly straying from HTML - except to say that HTML can obscure what page a person is actually on. But to quickly address the question, PR is specific to a page, and there is no such entity as "the PR of a site".

So the PR Google uses for its calculation is the PR of the document where the link appears. There's no way to tell from looking at the HTML of a document if that document might appear in a frame or even in 1,000 frames somewhere or other. And so the PR of any framing page doesn't enter into the PR calculation.