Redirect

Redirect can refer to a number of things:

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

• In law, a redirect is the reexamination of a witness by the lawyer who originally called them to testify -- that is, the one who delivered the direct examination. It occurs immediately after the cross-examination of the witness. The judge is not typically obliged to grant a lawyer's request for a redirect.
• In the Unix (and Unix-like) operating systems, Redirection refers to the ability to rearrange the input and output from commands given to the shell command line interpreter.
• In the HTTP computer protocol used by the World Wide Web, a redirect is a response with a status code beginning with 3 that induces a browser to go to another location.
• A lot of sites provide redirect services to shorten long URLs. For example TK and TinyURL.com.
• The META refresh tag in HTML, which directs the client to a different page, serves a similar function.