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URL Redirects

When you go to some web page addresses (URLs), the web server will automatically redirect you to a different URL for that site. A very good example is the Harry Potter web site. If you go to www.harrypotter.com, the server will automatically redirect you to harrypotter.warnerbros.com.

When you go to such a site in a browser, the browser will understand that the URL has changed, and will make corrections for that. WebScissors, however, is a much simpler tool, and is not able to follow URL redirects. Therefore, you need to be very careful in making sure that the URL you enter into WebScissors is the final URL that any redirects will point to, and not the URL of the redirect.

The easiest way to make sure you always have the correct URL is to:

  1. Go to the web page that contains the images you want.

  2. Hit the Go To button on your WebTV keyboard (or Options > Go To on the remote), and type in webscissors.com to bring you to WebScissors.

  3. Click on the Show Last URL button to populate the URL field with the URL of the page you just came form.

  4. Now that you've got the correct URL, proceed to the Show Images link.

If you use WebScissors rather frequently, you might also find it convenient to save a Favorites link to WebScissors in one of your F-keys, so that you can skip past step 2.

 

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