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Posted by Michael Fesser on 09/08/07 23:33
..oO(J.O. Aho)
>Michael Fesser wrote:
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>> While parsing all .html for PHP might waste resources on a single
>> machine, a redirect wastes bandwidth (on a high-traffic site this
>> counts!) and resources on a thousand machines around the world. Browsers
>> have to send another request, search engines and proxys have to update
>> their caches.
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>If you use a proper web server daemon, then you have other options than
>force the browser to make a new request.
If you change a URL, you have two choices:
1) Serve the same content with the old _and_ the new URL.
2) Redirect the old to the new URL with 301 status.
Anything else?
Micha
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