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I have a situation where some users may come to mistyped pages, from links, etc. In most situations I can determine the correct page that should be displayed, so I want to redirect to the correct URL.
Is a 301 Redirect appropriate in this case. 301 means “Moved Permanently”, but in this case the document wasn’t there in the first place. Is it legitimate to set a 404 Not Found header, then redirect to the correct URL?
I’d use 301. Moved permanently is appropriate in that it tells the accessed page is not there and never will be. If someone has a link to that page, they then know they should update the link.