Re: Header Redirect

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 17:10 +0100, Stut wrote: > On 27 May 2008, at 17:06, Yui Hiroaki wrote: > > I would like to have some question. > > > > For example, > > I am in http://example.com/?12324242 > > > > I would like to REDIRECT from > > http://example.com/?1312323232 > > to http://example.com/ > > > > I can REDIRECT from http://example.com/index.php to > > http://example.com > > > > > > Please do tell me how I can redirect! > > > > > > This is the sample what I test below! > > > > <?php > > if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == '/index.php') { > > header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); > > header("Location: http:///example.com/"); > > exit(); > > } > > ?> > > 1) Why? Redirects should be avoided where possible for performance > reasons. Didn't this topic get covered several months back. I always do redirects so as not to bugger browser history, titles, indexing, etc. If someone requests a page and they need to be logged in, I redirect to the login page, I never just present the login page... that's just incorrect from a hierarchical and semantic point of view. Similarly, if I'm doing 404 handling with fuzzy request sniffing to determine what was actually requested, I again perform a redirect once I've ascertained what was probably desired. If you don't, then Google and other search engines will index these malformed URLs instead of the correct URL. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP