CMS

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sat Jun 5 13:38:36 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 17:14:36 +1000,
  Ruediger Landmann <r.landmann at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> The dilemma we face is the decision of when to turn off the 404 
> redirect. For the sake of all the existing links scattered around the 
> net (both on the Fedora Project site and off it), we'd want to postpone 
> this as far as possible. On the other hand, any bot attempting to verify 
> that link gets a page served up and probably concludes that the link is 
> valid; I suspect that if these links 404ed, they'd start to evaporate 
> from search results.

Should code 301 be used for redirects to things that have moved? That code
indicates that the redirect is permanent and that the new URL should be
used going forward.


More information about the docs mailing list