[Xtf-devel] [ xtf-Feature Requests-1568108 ] Support HTTP 301 redirects

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Feature Requests item #1568108, was opened at 2006-09-29 16:52
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Category: General
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 7
Submitted By: Martin Haye (mhaye)
Assigned to: Martin Haye (mhaye)
Summary: Support HTTP 301 redirects

Initial Comment:
Redirects are useful in many circumstances. A couple
examples: (1) forking off from dynaXML to an external
service that takes care of displaying documents; (2)
detecting whether JavaScript is enabled on a user's
first access, then redirecting to the proper page to
handle it.

Currently if a servlet needs to redirect the user,
JavaScript or a <meta> tag. Both of these have the
problem that they mess up the back button -- the user
no longer has the ability to return to the page they
came from, because the redirect activates again
immediately.

HTTP supports a better alternative. If the servlet
returns a 301 HTTP status code, the browser redirects
without affecting the back button.

XTF should provide a way for stylesheets to specify
that a redirect should occur. Perhaps the best place
for this would be in the queryParser/docReqParser
stylesheets, or maybe it would be in the
resultFormatter/docFormatter.

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