hide get parameters completely without affecting the url using htaccess

Question

I have my website: www.testurl.com. The index.php first checks the client's device and redirects to the mobile version and desktop version accordingly.

However, while getting redirected to the desktop version, I get the url www.testurl.com/index.shtml?redirect=false . I want to hide the ?redirect=false part using htaccess. How can I do that? Due to my logic, I can't use post requests.

Answer 1

I'm assuming your index.php put it there because it needs it. You can't simply hide it by using directives in an htaccess file.

I'm going to assume that the redirect=false query string is to let index.php know not to redirect again based on the user-agent. So how does rules in htaccess know whether a request has been redirected? It seems like the index.php needs to be able to look at the version of the site that's being request. If it's a mobile user-agent, and it's accessing the mobile version of the site, don't redirect. If it's a desktop user-agent and it's accessing the desktop version of the site, don't redirect. This way you don't need the redirect=false query string.