strange behavior of Redirect on ajax

[Roy T. Fielding]

I just tried to add

Redirect Permanent /dist/jakarta/tomcat 
http://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat

to a .htaccess on ajax and the prefix match/replace didn't work.
I had to replace it with

RedirectMatch Permanent /dist/jakarta/tomcat(.*)$ 
http://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat$1

to get the intended results.

It makes me wonder if all Redirect directives are broken. :(

....Roy