This article describes how to properly redirect a web page using an HTTP 301 status code and Location header. The 301 status code is used to indicate that a page has permanently moved. Multiple techniques are presented with recommendations.

In order to redirect an out-of-print web page to another location, return the HTTP 301 status code and a location header in the HTTP response of the deprecated web page. The HTTP 301 response code will tell user-agents that the location has permanently moved. This is particularly useful for search engines like Google, which will carry over page rank to the new page if this status code is seen. If you do not need to indicate permanent displacement, you can accomplish redirection by setting a Location header in PHP or using Response.Redirect in ASP. The location header does the actual redirection to the new location, and can be used by itself.

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Knowing the languages selected in the browser of our visitors may be a very important data we may used to redirect the user to a specific page in the corresponding language, or to display specific information directed to the user (as for example the most suitable ad).

The basic command we will use to know the languages selected in the browser is this one:

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Standard ASP Response.Redirect "..." generates http header and document that does not redirect browser to required URL on some proxy configurations. The standard message is

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