First i'll start with the background:
I work for my University's Tech support and head their knowledgebase system. We are having an issue where we create links to specific knowledgebase articles with the intention that they long in to the site as a guest, but the system keeps forcing a login page. The issue is solved if you load up the main knoledgebase portal page first, but I want our users to just click a link to get where they want (seriously any additional steps and these users will have an Aneurysm). Apparently an upgrade to the portal version would fix the issue, but the company that owns the software are being pricks about it, apparently avoiding any further upgrades until the newer version comes out. I don't have access to the code of the system since it's technically a software package they purchased. The place is seriously underfunded right now so anything that might cost money is out of the question.
So here's the idea I had. I want to create an HTML file that I can throw on the web server that will load the portal page first, and then redirect to the knowledbase article. I had the idea of using a frame and a refresh call to achieve this but then I'd have to have an HTML file for every link I make, and unfortunately I do not have direct access to the server so it needs to be a one time thing. I would like to try and do this using forms or something similar like an embedded url, anything more like asp and javascript would be too much cause their web server is archaic (I think they are using Windows Server 2003 to host the page... so I'm not going to reveal which university it is... lol).