I am “renaming” an existing file for a project I am working on. To maintain backwards compatibility, I am leaving a cfm file in place to redirect the users to the new one.
- buy.cfm: old
- shop.cfm: new
In order to keep everything as clean as possible, I want to send the 301 statuscode response if a user tries to go to buy.cfm.
I know that I can use either cflocation with the statuscode attribute
<cflocation url="shop.cfm" statuscode="301" addtoken="false">
or I can use the cfheader tags.
<cfheader statuscode="301" statustext="Moved permanently">
<cfheader name="Location" value="http://www.mysite.com/shop.cfm">
Are there any reasons to use one method over the other?
I think they do the same thing, with
<cflocation>being more readable