KohdeURL

KohdeURL is a descriptive variable name used in web development to denote the target URL that a process should navigate to or load. It is not a formal standard term; rather, it reflects Finnish-English naming conventions found in some codebases. The value of kohdeURL may be an absolute URL such as https://example.com/page, or a relative path within the same site, depending on how the redirect or navigation is implemented.

Common usages include server-side redirects, client-side routing, and destination links in marketing or affiliate tracking. In a redirect rule, an application or server reads kohdeURL to determine the final destination after evaluating any conditions. In analytics workflows, kohdeURL may be the destination to which a click leads after tracking parameters are appended.

Security and correctness: if kohdeURL comes from user input or query parameters, it must be validated and properly encoded. Failure to validate can enable open redirect vulnerabilities or injection attacks. Best practices include validating destinations against a whitelist, preferring relative paths when possible, and performing redirects on the server side rather than directly in client code.

See also: target URL, destination URL, redirect, URL encoding, open redirect.