Question

When a webpage has moved to a new location, how do I show the moved web page AND return a 301 permanent redirect HTTP response status code in Django?

Answer 1

   from django import http     return http.HttpResponsePermanentRedirect('/yournewpage.html') 

the browser will get the 301, and go to /yournewpage.html as expected. the other answer is technically correct, in that python is not handling the redirection per se, the browser is. this is what’s happening under the hood:

Browser             Python         HTTP    ------------------->            GET /youroldpage.html HTTP/1.1     <-------------------            HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently                                    Location: /yournewpage.html    ------------------->            GET /yournewpage.html HTTP/1.1