Yeah it's better from a seo and indexing perspective. 

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On Sep 15, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Scott Ferguson <f...@caucho.com> wrote:

> jkowall wrote:
>> Sorry Scott, its a directory, there is no servlet mapping.  It has a 
>> index.jsp file which is served.
>> 
>> Full URL is http://www.somehost.com/en/index.jsp The browser just 
>> shows it as http://www.somehost.com/en/
> Ok, so changing to 301 would be better? That could be changed fairly easily.
> 
> -- Scott
>> 
>> -jk
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Scott Ferguson <f...@caucho.com 
>> <mailto:f...@caucho.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>    jkowall wrote:
>>> I'm seeing a strange behavior where resin is redirecting (302) a url
>>> when you leave off the final / in the URL:
>>> 
>>> example:
>>> if I hit www.somehost.com/en <http://www.somehost.com/en>
>>    <http://www.somehost.com/en> I get this
>>> output:
>> 
>>    In this situation, what is "en"? Specifically, is there a directory
>>    corresponding to it? Or a en/index.jsp or some servlet mapping?
>> 
>>    The original reason for the redirect was things like en/index.jsp
>>    where
>>    relative links wouldn't be handled by the browser correctly if we
>>    immediately dispatch to en/index.jsp.
>> 
>>    -- Scott
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> GET http://www.somehost.com/en
>>> 302 Found to http://www.somehost.com/en/
>>> 
>>> GET http://www.somehost.com/en/
>>> 200 OK (text/html)
>>> 
>>> If I hit www.somehost.com/en/ <http://www.somehost.com/en/>
>>    <http://www.somehost.com/en/> I get this
>>> output:
>>> 
>>> GET http://www.qa.mfg.com/en/
>>> 200 OK (text/html)
>>> 
>>> The main reason this is a problem, is when search engines index you
>>> they will keep a 302 and index it differently versus a 301.  It
>>    would
>>> actually be better if we could change it to a 301, then google,etc
>>> wouldn't consider www.somehost.com/en
>>    <http://www.somehost.com/en> <http://www.somehost.com/en> a
>>> different URL than www.somehost.com/en/
>>    <http://www.somehost.com/en/> <http://www.somehost.com/en/>
>>> which currently happens when someone links to the directory without
>>> the final /
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts?
>>> 
>>> -jk
>>> 
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