On 8/14/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
or (c) It hard redirects you, and there's a link back to where you came from.
So . . . I go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_redirection. I get a 301 to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection? Then how does the server know to display the link back? All it knows is someone asked for one URL and got a 301 in return, then someone asked for another URL and needs to be returned a page. HTTP is stateless. So you'd have to redirect to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection?redirect=HTTP_redirection or something, which completely defeats the purpose.
Your only reply to that was that we didn't need the redirection link, we could just have a "pages redirecting to here" and that would be good enough. I haven't seen anyone else agree with that yet; I certainly don't. You're talking at least two clicks and a pageload plus hunting through a list, all instead of a single click. It would be quite annoying.