On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Ilmari Karonen <[email protected]> wrote: > Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Oldak Quill <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Might not 302 be better in that it indicates the redirect will always >>> be there, though the target might move in the future? Where 301 >>> suggests that the client "ought to automatically re-link references", >>> 302 suggests "client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future >>> request". >>> >>> Although 302 indicates temporary move and 301 indicates permanent >>> move, since the Main_page could be renamed, 302 might be more fitting >>> anyway... >> >> The Main Page *could* be renamed. Wikipedia *could* also move to >> www.thebestencyclopediaever.net. 301 isn't an iron-clad guarantee, >> it's a hint. 302 should be used for things that will definitely or at >> least plausibly change in the future, not things that hypothetically >> maybe could change if people really felt like it for some reason, >> because the latter describes everything on the Internet. > > The actual semantic difference between 301 and 302, as Oldak notes, is > that clients that can choose which URL to use in the future should > prefer the redirect target for 301, whereas they should keep using the > original URL for 302. > > (There's also some differences with cacheability by default, but > explicit expiry and cache control headers override those.) > > Since <http://en.wikipedia.org/> is arguably a better URL for linking to > the English Wikipedia main page than > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>, I'd see no reason not to make > the redirect a 302. We'd just be telling visitors that "our main page > is over there, but feel free to keep using this shorter URL". >
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page just looks ugly And If you visit this: en.wikipedia.org./Main_Page It works (with a HTML redirection), but you are amused with a page designed to scare you. It seems work with other words: http://en.wikipedia.org./Cool -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
