I have a webpage that when landed on, will detect a user’s physical location and then redirect them to the page most appropriate for the user.
What HTTP Status Code should be used for this redirect?
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I have a webpage that when landed on, will detect a user’s physical location and then redirect them to the page most appropriate for the user.
What HTTP Status Code should be used for this redirect?
I believe that HTTP 303 is probably the most appropriate status code for a situation like this, though it may not be compatible with pre-HTTP 1.1 clients.
The HTTP 303 Status Code states (Note: I have bolded the parts that I feel are most important):
The response to the request can be found under a different URI and SHOULD be retrieved using a GET method on that resource. This method exists primarily to allow the output of a POST-activated script to redirect the user agent to a selected resource. The new URI is not a substitute reference for the originally requested resource. The 303 response MUST NOT be cached, but the response to the second (redirected) request might be cacheable.