On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> wrote:
> > In theory responses 301 and 308 mean "permanent redirect" so the browser > could do that for those responses. > > In practice you'd need a lot of data to convince yourself that Web > developers haven't screwed this up too badly. Maybe 308, being newer, is > not compromised... > > To be explicit, I want a tangential feature to HTTP redirects. HTTP redirects only work on single URLs. User agents need to hit/crawl every URL and update accordingly. I want the site to publish a "URL translation map" for URL patterns so whole URL namespaces can be bulk updated. Basically exposing the URL rewrite rules from the HTTP server. Perhaps search engines already support such a feature to aid spidering? To address glandium's point, obviously this would likely only work if the old domain is still alive, as there are obvious issues with domain X trying to update URLs from domain Y! Although maybe there are tricks to establish a trusted link from old domain to new. (I'm far from an expert here.) _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
