Ok. I’m dealing with a webpage, the entire source code of which (found using the “view-source:http://www.domainnamehere.com” command) is:
< link rel=”stylesheet” href=”affiliates.css” type=”text/css” > (added spaces, so hopefully it doesn’t mess up)
I’ve been able to figure out that this applies an external stylesheet (not that I really know what that means). My question is: is there a way to access/print out the text of the stylesheet from the internet?
The reason I need to know is this: the domain name at which this source code is located automatically redirects to a third party domain name, through a three step process (below). I’m preparing something which requires me to rely upon this redirect. Short of using a camera to film the redirect or just telling the person to type in the domain name themselves, though, I can’t seem to come up with a way to “prove” the redirect on paper.
Thus, if I could access the source-code that includes the redirect instructions, it would be incredibly helpful. Or is there something else I could do? I can manage a screen capture of steps two and three in the following sequence:
1. Input domain name –>
2. Third party website with affiliate id attached –>
3. Homepage of third party website.
What I need is a way to “prove” how I get from point 1 to point 2.
Does any of this make sense? Sigh.






May 25th, 2005 at 7:20 pm
call me. Also, you can just take the URL of the stylesheet (the href attribute + the hostname and path of the URL referring to the CSS page) to get the CSS. IE sometimes is annoying about this, but Firefox should show it to you.
May 25th, 2005 at 7:21 pm
I’m on IM if you need my number….
May 25th, 2005 at 7:50 pm
Don’t know if you’re getting this, but the point I was making was, if you’re looking at http://www.somedomain.com and that page contains the link tag you mentioned in your post, the URL you should put in is:
http://www.somedomain.com/affiliates.css
May 25th, 2005 at 9:29 pm
I tried using the “view-source” command on both http://www.domainhere.com/affiliates.css and http://www.domainhere.com/css/affiliates.css. Each time, the source code was identical to the source code for the main site… Argh.
May 25th, 2005 at 10:24 pm
can you not tell me the domain? like i said call and i can see what’s going on… i can’t find your cell phone number right now…
May 26th, 2005 at 11:24 am
check your home email when you get a moment.