[TYPO3-dev] link to external url behaviour (why not going directly external?)

[Martin Kutschker]

Steffen Kamper schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> stefano cecere schrieb:
>>
>> what i ask is: why do these external links pass via the internal
>> pages, and not show straight the external URL in the menus?
>> what is the advantage to have them working like they do now?
>>
> 
> simple: as it's a page you have also the URL to this page (which does
> the redirect)

That doesn't explain much. The only advantage I can see is that you will
have the page hit logged in your web server statistics. If you don't
need this, you would be fine with a directed external URL in your menus
and inline links.

Masi