# Youtube.com/v/fo\_acb123 -- How do they get this redirect to work?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/youtube-com-v-fo-acb123-how-do-they-get-this-redirect-to-work/250440
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**Created:** [January 29, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/youtube-com-v-fo-acb123-how-do-they-get-this-redirect-to-work/250440 "2008-01-29T17:13:57Z")
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### Author: ![Kristopher](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kristopher/32/501_2.png) [@Kristopher](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kristopher)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/youtube-com-v-fo-acb123-how-do-they-get-this-redirect-to-work/250440/1 "2008-01-29T17:13:57Z")

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Hey everyone,

I’m trying to figure out a better way to provide my site’s embeddable snippets. When I was researching YouTube’s method, I noticed that they don’t link to an actual .swf file and pass params in, but rather simply link to a directory. Here’s an example:

```auto

<object width="425" height="355">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fo_QVq2lGMs"></param>
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param>
    <embed 
        src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fo_QVq2lGMs" 
        type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
        wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355">
    </embed>
</object>

```

The key part is the **[http://www.youtube.com/v/fo\_QVq2lGMs](http://www.youtube.com/v/fo_QVq2lGMs)**.

I would be interested in some feedback as to how one would return this data. Is it just a redirect script going on (via the language of your choice)? So it does some sort of redirect to [http://www.youtube.com/v/player.swf?config=QVq2lGMs](http://www.youtube.com/v/player.swf?config=QVq2lGMs) ?

If anyone has any experience, I’d love to hear how you tackled it! Thanks.