hi
can some one tell me how to capture the url on the browser address bar.
let me explain my problem.
when ever a person enters a url on the adress bar and submit i need to show up a different page before that page and so i need to caputer the url that the person enters so that i need to redirect to it after i display the initial page depending so some conditions.. like if the user agrees to terms and conditions i will have to take him to the page he wants.
i may not have explained the problem properly but some one pls let me know if there is any function in java script or html that can capture the url on the browser adress bar.
thank u.

I know of no way to accomplish that, and I would think that it can't be done - at least I hope so. It would be a huge securoty risk. Just think about it, I am on somesite.com and decide I want to go do my banking. I type in my banks URL, but somesite.com redirects me to their spopof site that mimics my bank's site.

What you are trying to accomplish sounds very familiar to some of the disclaimers I have seen on other sites. In otherwords I click a link and the site pops up a message that I am choosing to go to another site and they are not responsible for the content I see there. That IS possible by making the links fire off a javascript function instead of just opening the linked page.

But, tyring to hijack the URL a users types into the address should not be possible.

Michael J

If you want your users to accept terms and conditions before entering you web site then make that the default page, usually index.html depending on how the web server is set up.

The URL itself doesnt contain any page information as to which page to show. In the absence of any informationas to which page to load, the server will load the default page.

Once the terms and condition shave been accepted then you direct them to the web site proper.

When a web server receives an request from a remote computer, the TCP/IP header contains the URL entered. You can capture that, but if you try and redirect the user to another web site then most modern browsers with anti-hijacking built in will reject it.

If its a different page on the same site then thats a different matter.

Stuart