How to move a Web page

• HTML Refresh META tag
• HTTP Refresh header with status 200 (OK)
• HTTP Location header with status 301 (moved permanently)
• HTTP Location header with status 302 (m oved temporarily)
• HTTP Refresh header with status 301 (moved permanently)
• HTTP Refresh header with status 302 (moved temporarily)

A GET of test302r looks like this:

HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 19:48:20 GMT
Server: Apache/1.1.1
Content-type: text/html
Refresh: 3;url=http://vancouver-webpages.com/cgi-bin/showref.pl

<title>Status 302 with Refresh</title>
The new page is <a href="http://vancouver-webpages.com/cgi-bin/showref.pl">here</a>
<p>
Status 302  (moved temporarily) with refresh in 3 seconds

Netscape 3.0 is happy with this. Lynx 2.5 refuses to show the page, as does Arena 0.97. My old X-11 Mosaic 2.6 seems to jump straight to the URL (interesting, that ...). Lynx 2.6 issues an alert about missing Location header but proceeds to show the page. It shows links for HTML Refresh tags but not HTTP Refresh headers.

The Perl scripts may be seen here.