On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:08:58PM +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Another related issue is that redirects don't actually redirect - I certainly been confused at times by the URL in my address bar not actually being the URL for the page I'm looking at. Would it be good to actually use HTTP redirects? Possibly with a &redirectedfrom parameter in order to credit the link bank, if it can't be worked out from the referer or something. That would result in 2 requests to the servers rather than the current 1, but would allow links to be automatically updated by anything clever enough to know how to do that (for example, it should stop both the redirect and the real page appearing in Google with the same text, as I believe they do at the moment).
Check this list's archives; early 07, I think. I posited that sugestion, and was carefully talked down; it took a few messages to convince me that "real" redirects were a Bad Idea, but they did, in fact, manage it.
Cheers, -- jra