[Sigia-l] Redirects...

[Sarah Brodwall]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:11:53 -0500, Dan Saffer <dan at odannyboy.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't the best experience be to make the redirect as seamless as
> possible (unnoticeable)? It's fairly easy to do, and doesn't need to be
> maintained, only set up. Prevents putting the onus on users to change
> their links or bookmarks. Most users, I would imagine, don't care about
> the address, only in accessing the content on the page.
> 
> Dan

You can do this on the server side so it's completely
seamless--unnoticeable to the user, properly indexed by robots.  It's
great for when you have to reorganize a site, so that you don't end up
breaking people's bookmarks; I wish more sites would use redirects
properly.  There are different HTTP codes based on whether the
redirect should be permanent or temporary, etc.  I expect this is
something that's generally handled by sysadmins, not directly by IA's?

~Sarah