Server side redirect

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A server side redirect is HTTP status code (eg. 301 Moved Permanently, 303 See Other and 307 Temporary Redirect) which web server uses to redirect user's web browser to another web page with a different URL.

Common uses of server-side redirects include:

• redirecting people away from a discontinued server
• load balancing
• redirecting to error pages if a discontinued URL is used
• link use tracking, as done at the AltaVista search engine
• spamdexingTemplate:Web-stub