301 OK vs. 301 Permanently Moved?

Citricguy · #1 02-01-2007, 02:43 AM

For some reason the headers being sent during a vBSEO redirect read 'HTTP/1.x 301 OK' instead of 'HTTP/1.x 301 Moved Permanently'. Is this supposed to be the case?

I see a similar issue with 404 errors at PHP.net PHP: header - Manual

I think it has to do with PHP being run as CGI. If it is being run as CGI would you use...

Code:

header("Status: 301 Moved Permanently");

instead of... (for non CGI installs?)

Code:

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");

I did a grep -r '404 Not Found' * to see what vBulletin does to check for CGI installs, they use the following snipit of code for 404 errors, does it need to be done for 301 redirects in vBSEO?:

Code:

// This line of code was found in attachment.php
 
if (empty($_REQUEST['attachmentid']))
{
// return not found header
$sapi_name = php_sapi_name();
if ($sapi_name == 'cgi' OR $sapi_name == 'cgi-fcgi')
{
header('Status: 404 Not Found');
}
else
{
header('HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found');
}
exit;
}

Well, I guess I really don't know if '301 OK' is even an issue, but could it be why most of my old pages (that have sense been hit by google and had the 301 OK redirect applied) haven't changed in googles index?

Here are the captured headers from my sites 301 redirect with my notes in green..

Code:

This line is the inital request sent from my browser
RHCP in NJ tonight! - Chaos Forums
 
And the actual get request from my browser...
GET /showthread.php?t=1368 HTTP/1.1
Host: Chaos Forums
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: chaosforumslastvisit=1170149015; chaosforumslastactivity=0; __utma=45672950.1751800113.1170149027.1170224728.1170307614.3; __utmz=45672950.1170224728.2.2.utmccn=(organic)|utmcsr=google|utmctr=%22agrobot%20phatbot%22|utmcmd=organic; chaosforumssessionhash=a917f68a1205fa72d23d2549c0f99d88; __utmb=45672950; __utmc=45672950; chaosforumscpsession=6e51f9786177166c391337f3f509b9be; chaosforumsuserid=1; chaosforumspassword=7361f224a4b2ca8bad4eebbe256f2eef
 
Here is the response from the server with (what i think) is a faulty 301 redirect.
HTTP/1.x 301 OK
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:35:48 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4
Location: RHCP in NJ tonight! - Chaos Forums
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

Oleg Ignatiuk · #2 02-01-2007, 02:10 PM

Hello Josh,

in both cases 301 HTTP code is sent, so I don't think this is an issue, but we will add the code to handle cgi version of PHP in the next vBSEO build.

Citricguy · #3 02-01-2007, 02:33 PM

Thank you Oleg!

I wonder if malformed headers effect Google at all. All browsers seem to handle '301 OK' fine, I would assume spiders would too...

O well, doesn't matter now, lol. Can't wait til' the next build!

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