- From: Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 21:17:46 -0500
- To: Andrew Daviel <andrew@andrew.triumf.ca>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, Robots List <robots@mail.mccmedia.com>
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997 13:21:51 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Daviel <andrew@andrew.triumf.ca> wrote: > <META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="4;http://www.domain.com/page.html"> > > Works fine for people. Isn't it CONTENT="4; URL=http://...." ? That seems to work fine as well. > Theory says you should send a 301 "Moved Permanently" HTTP status code > which ought to update search engines, or otherwise automated agents > will continue to think your old page is OK. Yes, but there are other ways to show a page is superceded and shouldn't be indexed. <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="time; URL=newurl"> <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="expiration date"> <meta name="Robots" content="noindex,noarchive"> <link rev=Supercedes href="newurl"> Notice the use of the expiration date, the link relationship and the robots tag. In the body there's a message about the page being moved with a link. > However, if you issue a 301 status with a text page, most browsers > will jump immediately to the new location without so much as a flicker. Aren't browsers supposed to ignore status codes as part of a web page? (ie, <meta http-equiv="Status"...>) Rob --- Robert Rothenburg Walking-Owl (wlkngowl@unix.asb.com) Se habla PGP. http://www.asb.com/usr/wlkngowl
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