My understanding is that a permanent redirect would be telling the client (and
any other clients getting cached results from an intermediary) to now stop
using the original endpoint in perpetuity for all cases. I don’t think that is
appropriate (in the general case) for an endpoint with request
Those points of confusion strike me as somewhat hypothetical or hyperbolic.
But your general point is taken and your position of being anti additional
metadata on this issue is noted.
All of which leaves me a bit uncertain about how to proceed. There seem to
be a range of opinions on this point an
Yeah, probably.
On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 12:39 AM Neil Madden
wrote:
> If we go down the 307 route, shouldn’t it rather be a 308 (permanent)
> redirect? It seems unnecessary for the client to keep trying the original
> endpoint or have to remember cache-control/expires timeouts.
>
> — Neil
>
> On
