print "location:" - is this a 301

[1DMF]

Hello,

Basically as per the heading, If I use

print "Location:URL\n\n";

Is this the same as a 301 redirect and so the resulting page is actually what a spider / search engine see's rather than the perl CGI script?

thanks,

1DMF



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[1DMF]

ok from what i've been reading this is a 302 not 301

I've found this code

#!/usr/bin/perl      -w
use strict;
print "Status: 301 Moved Permanantly\n";
print "Location: [URL unfurl="true"]http://somewhere/page.htm\n\n";[/URL]
exit;

along with this

use CGI; 
my $q = CGI->new(); 
print $q->redirect( 
-location => '[URL unfurl="true"]http://someothersite.com/page1.cgi',[/URL] 
-status => 301, 
);

Which is better?

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[travs69]

I can honestly say I have no idea I usually just let apache handle the error pages.

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[aardvark92]

AFAIK it's just a matter of style. The first is the manual way to code the redirect, and the second is the CGI object-oriented way to generate the same HTTP headers.

There may be more going on under the surface (or not), but the results are the same.

 

[1DMF]

I usually just let apache handle the error pages

yeah but this is ActiveState on IIS / Windows box.

if only there was a .htaccess function :-(

I think i prefer the cgi OO method, looks like it's easier to issue different status codes.

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