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Redirection Middleware

Redirection Middleware is a feature that can help you gain more control on campaign redirection.

tip

Redirection Middleware is not available in Free plan.

How it works?​

To use redirection middleware, following these steps:

  1. go to Settings >> Redirection Middleware to set your middleware URL.

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  1. After defining your middlware, choose "redirection middleware" in the "redirection method" of creation form.

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Let's say you define a redirection middleware with URL: https://www.mydomain.com/jump?url={target}, and you have a rotator with only one default destination: https://myoffer.com, then when visitors acess this rotator, instead of redirecting to https://myoffer.com, they will be 302 redirected to your middleware first: https://www.mydomain.com/jump?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmyoffer.com, it is your middleware's responsibility to redirect visitors to actual target https://myoffer.com

tip

The target value in middleware will be url encoded.

Template​

We have prepared a redireciton middleware template so you can use this feature without coding.

go.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
<body>
    <script>
        //modify the parameter name that contains the target url
        var targetParameter = "url";

        //do not change the code below unless you know what you're doing
        var target = getUrlParameter(targetParameter);
        if(target){
            window.location.href = target;
        }else{
            document.write("No value from parameter: "+targetParameter);
        }
        function getUrlParameter(name) {
            var regexSearch = "[\\?&#]" + name + "=([^&#]*)";
            var regex = new RegExp(regexSearch);
            var results = regex.exec(window.location.href);
            return results ? decodeURIComponent(results[1]) : '';
        }
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Copy this code to a html file, let's say the html file name is go.html, upload to your website https://domain.com, then you can put this into the redirection middleware:

https://domain.com/go.html?url={target}

How to turn off redirection middleware?​

To turn off redirection middleware, follow these steps:

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  1. Leave empty in the middleware URL field.

  2. Update settings.

If you turn off redirection middleware, but there are still rotators set redirection method to middleware, then MaxConv will use a fallback method Meta Refresh - No Referrer for those rotators.