Both, 301 Moved Permanently
and 308 Permanent Redirect
HTTP response status codes are used to indicate that the requested resource has been permanently moved to a new URL (as specified by the Location headers). The main difference between the two is that:
301
may sometimes (incorrectly) change aPOST
request into aGET
;308
does not allow the HTTP method (or the request body) to be changed.
Therefore, you should choose 308
when you're dealing with POST
requests, and choose 301
for GET
and HEAD
requests.
For example, 308
is useful when submitting a form to a permanently redirected resource where you would want the client to make a POST
request with the same request body to the new, redirected location. Doing the same with 301
, however, might be problematic as the client may choose to change POST
to GET
(which is typically the case).
Specifying either of these is good for SEO as the indication that the resource has permanently moved to a new URL helps search engines update their links to the resource.
Some old browsers (and other clients such as crawlers, etc.) may not understand the HTTP response status code 308
as it is fairly new (introduced in April 2015). As a result, they may not follow the redirect. In such a case, you can use 301
instead.
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