A cached link?  The url is clearly the maintenance page.  Browsers
don't cache the 302 redirect.



On Feb 2, 8:16 pm, David desJardins <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Feb 2, 7:04 pm, Luis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I just don't see why they would purposely spend time to make it easier
> > to have someone constantly hitting refresh.
>
> The reason to make the maintenance page redirect to the home page when
> the site is back up is so that people who visit it, for whatever
> reason (e.g., because of a cached link), don't think the site is still
> down.  It has nothing to do with ease or difficulty of reloading,
> which is trivial anyway and also insignificant.
>
>   -- David desJardins
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