[thesite] old links

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 19 13:10:02 CST 2002


> From: ".jeff" <jeff at members.evolt.org>
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> > so, this link sits on webword:
> > http://www.evolt.org/index.cfm?menu=8&cid=2396&catid=25
> >
> > but doesn't seem to resolve at all...  it points to this:
> > http://evolt.org/article/view/25/2396/
> >
> > are we still capturing old-style URLs?  i thought we
> > were when i tested for the book... did i miss something?
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> we are capturing them, but the redirect doesn't seem to be working
> properly in some browsers.
[...]
> i'm guessing most browsers don't correctly interpret the 301 error
> code, at least not ie6 or nn4.  nn6.2 performs the redirect properly.

IE5.5/win isn't...

but why using 301 instead of 302?

i know for a fact 302 has very broad support...

> nn4 just shows an ugly 404 page with a link to the article.  ie6 (and
> i suspect ie5.x also) just throw up an internal error page.  that's
> not terribly useful at all.  not sure what the solution is.

302?




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