CFLOCATION tags revised

Pete Freitag’s description of what CFLOCATION does alerted us to our misuse of the CFLOCATION tag for redirecting visitors from http://www.gac.edu to http://www.gustavus.edu. Apparently CFLOCATION sends the browser a 302 Moved Temporarily HTTP Status Code. Freitag suggests that one should send a 301 Moved Permanently HTTP Status Code using CFHEADER.

However, the 302 temporary status code is entirely appropriate for most situations. When redirecting users from one domain to another equivalent (such as from gac.edu to gustavus.edu), one should use this technique for SEO purposes.

So, this morning we revised a few of our CFLOCATION tags to more accurately reflect their function as a permenant redirect.