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politician on Oct 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: New HTTP Codes

Yes, sometimes the correct response is not an HTML page, but an error code (e.g. 301 Moved Permanently, 302 Found are used to implement redirects).

ataggart on Oct 20, 2011 [–]

And sometimes the correct response is an error code and an HTML page, e.g., 401 Unauthorized and an ajax login page that reloads the current URL.

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