On 06/05/2010 11:38 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 17:14:36 +1000, > Ruediger Landmann<r.landmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> The dilemma we face is the decision of when to turn off the 404 >> redirect. For the sake of all the existing links scattered around the >> net (both on the Fedora Project site and off it), we'd want to postpone >> this as far as possible. On the other hand, any bot attempting to verify >> that link gets a page served up and probably concludes that the link is >> valid; I suspect that if these links 404ed, they'd start to evaporate >> from search results. >> > Should code 301 be used for redirects to things that have moved? That code > indicates that the redirect is permanent and that the new URL should be > used going forward. > Yes, absolutely. I've got a list from Google of incoming links, around which we can write a bunch of 301s. I'm working on this :) Cheers Rudi -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
