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Bug 22271 - redirects do not return HTTP status code 301

Summary:	redirects do not return HTTP status code 301

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 18883 Product: MediaWiki Classification: Unclassified Component: Redirects (Other open bugs) Version: 1.15.x Hardware: All All Importance: Normal normal with 2 votes (vote) Target Milestone: --- Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this! URL: Whiteboard: Keywords: Depends on: Blocks:   Show dependency tree / graph		Reported: 2010-01-25 22:08 UTC by Sorin Sbarnea Modified: 2011-04-30 01:21 UTC (History) CC List: 2 users (show) overlordq sorin.sbarnea See Also: Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: --- Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Description Sorin Sbarnea 2010-01-25 22:08:46 UTC In order to conform is HTTP standard MediaWiki should return 301 status code for redirected pages. It look that people hacked MW in order to repair this: http://www.sumbytes.com/mediawiki-301-redirects/ Comment 1 OverlordQ 2010-01-25 22:36:33 UTC Previously WONTFIX'd as there's little to no benefit: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18883 and related linked bugs. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 18883 ***