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Intelligent hyperlinks

in Getting Started • 10 years ago

We are constantly fixing broken hyperlinks on our website. I would like to create an intelligent hyperlink that, upon detecting a 404, invokes a search engine (google?) and searches the target domain using predefined keywords and lists the results. I envision a page that would pop up stating "The target page could not be found. Here are pages with similar content."

Is jQuery the right tool for something like that? How complicated would it be? Ultimately, maybe web sites could "tag" their pages with some sort of uniqueID that could ultimately be used in hyperlinks like the document ID feature in SharePoint.

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Godsbest

Re: Intelligent hyperlinks

10 years ago

You would have to write a server-side proxy that will do the pinging for you otherwise by the time you navigate to the URL it may be too late to know if it throws a 404.

Once you have your proxy script in place, call it via ajax supplying the URL your are about navigate to. If while trying to PING the URL it encounters error 404, then you can do your keyword search using your favorite search engine, otherwise navigate to the URL.

Please note: in case you want full control of the search results page, you may want to use the proxy to fetch the search results ..... and you'd kill two birds with one stone, just like that!

mherring

Re: Intelligent hyperlinks

10 years ago

Please forgive my ignorance. I'm not a programmer. But, this makes too much common sense to me. I can't believe that there's not already an app that does this and a standard or class for formating the hyperlinks. I imagine it like this:

<a href="http://www.google.com"; targetPageID=78541258474; keywords="search","engine","internet">Google</a>

Kevin B

Re: Intelligent hyperlinks

10 years ago

It simply isnt possible to solve using only client-side code, so having an app that does it would have to be custom built to work with your application, or you would have to use an existing one that does it (if one exists? if it did, it wouldn't be related to jQuery)

-- Kevin

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