redirects do not return HTTP status code 301
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	• bzimport
	Jan 25 2010, 10:08 PM

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Author: sorin.sbarnea

Description:
In order to conform is HTTP standard MediaWiki should return 301 status code for redirected pages.

It look that people hacked MW in order to repair this:
http://www.sumbytes.com/mediawiki-301-redirects/

Version: 1.15.x
Severity: normal

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:56 PM

• bzimport set Reference to bz22271.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

overlordq wrote:

Previously WONTFIX'd as there's little to no benefit:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 18883 ***