A packet switching function that routes a call to an alternative network address if the link to the original address is not working It is carried out by end point switches
channel into a new direction; "redirect your attention to the danger from the fundamentalists"
To divert data from a process to a file or device to which it would not normally go
1: (verb) to display another web address for the same web page after going there; 2: (noun): the server instruction to accomplish such a redirect In a typical example, the user types in a web address such as "http: //www TheDogLoversPalace com" The page at that web address loads but instead the URL line now says "http: //www DoggieHeaven com" even though either address will get you to the same web site and both addresses are registered to the same party Many businesses uses multiple web domain names to maximize promotional flexibility Just having two or more web addresses pointing to the same page is not inherently a redirect unless the page always displays only one web address regardless of however many point to that page
This is an option in Eudora that does not exist is all mailers When you redirect a message, the original sender's name appears in the From: line, not your name (see Forward for the difference), and the original message does not appear with > marks
If a phone rings 4 to 5 times and is not answered, the call is redirected to the cell site and terminates to the VM box
Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination