301 or 302 Redirect

[suzanne]

Does anyone know of a tool/service that will allow me to see which type of redirect (301 or 302) is being used by a site? I have used one in the past, but cannot for the life of me remember the name or URL.

[trillianjedi]

Hi Suzanne,

There's one right here:-

[webmasterworld.com...]

Type in the original URL and it will return the server response, telling you which code was issued.

TJ

[suzanne]

Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks.

[suzanne]

OK, maybe I spoke a little too early. In the results from the tool, I do not see where the redirect type is specified. Any thoughts?

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:28:31 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_throttle/3.1.2 PHP/4.3.1 FrontPage/5.0.2.2623 mod_ssl/2.8.14 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Vary: Host
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.1
Set-Cookie: widgets_sid=053147969c1f2b5c32df888b971fcc8a; path=/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

[edited by: trillianjedi at 12:35 pm (utc) on Dec. 10, 2004]
[edit reason] Widgetised something [/edit]

[trillianjedi]

"200 OK" means there isn't a 301 or 302 being issued by the server.

If the page is being redirected, it's in the page itself (view source).

TJ

[suzanne]

Thanks for your help on the topic. Will this have a negative impact with the search engines, since it is not using a 301 redirect? I have found that Yahoo will sometimes spider and index this domain, even though it just redirects to a different domain.

[Romeo]

You may try the command line utility "wget".
It will show all return codes, including a 301 or 302 before attempting to follow the redirect.

This GNU utility originally lives on unix systems, but there is also version working in the command prompt windows (those black boxes ...) of Windows.

Regards,
R.

[d_fused]

Slightly off-topic:

There is a small stand-alone tool for checking http headers.
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I have found it quite useful myself.

Hope this helps.

Regards.

[edited by: trillianjedi at 1:16 pm (utc) on Dec. 10, 2004]
[edit reason] TOS - no tool drops please.... [/edit]

[trillianjedi]

Yahoo! have had known issues with 301 redirects recently. The last I read (might have been back in the supporters forum) was that it was due to be resolved very very shortly.

Are you having the same problem with other engines?

TJ

[suzanne]

As far as I can tell, the issue is just happening in Yahoo.