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Asked: 2026-05-13T22:05:30+00:00

I have been asked by a client to return a 410 Status code for

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I have been asked by a client to return a 410 Status code for some URLs in a previous version of there site.

I have two options for how to programe this (based on constraints outside the scope of this request)

Option 1 this is easy to implement: use an existing old urls redirector (301 status code) to redirect all those urls to a single page, and have that page return an (410 status) code.

Option 2 harder to implement: write a feature to return the 410 status codes directly.

The question: will google(and others) do the right thing with option 1?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’ll probably want to return the 410 directly, unless you are 100% there are no possible client connections made to the site which cannot correctly interpret the 301.

    I would opt for the direct 410 to keep http integrity.

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