Accessing URL query string for a redirect to external site

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  roboakonell · Member · May 24, 2012 at 4:34 pm

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  Hi,
  I was wondering if it is possible to have a page designed on the wordpress.com site such that providing different query parameters to the URL could cause a redirect to some external site. For example, the following URLs could redirect thusly:
  http://oakonell.com/libridroid/book?id=123
  => http://librivox.org/123
http://oakonell.com/libridroid/book?id=456
  => http://librivox.org/456

  I would be able to do this with some simple javascript code, to get the URL query string and issue a redirect, but that is disallowed on wordpress.com.
  Is there an official/safe way to do something like this from a wordpress.com hosted page?

  Thanks,
  Rob O’Connell

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  jkudish · Member · May 24, 2012 at 7:11 pm

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  Hi there,

  Unfortunately this isn’t possible on WordPress.com. You would be able to achieve this with a self-hosted installation for WordPress.org, see http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ for more details