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Aral Balkan

(Re)introducing 404 → 307 (the evergreen web technique)¹

What if links never died? What if we never broke the Web? What if it didn’t involve any extra work?

It’s possible. And easy.

Just make your 404s into 307s.

4042307.org/

¹ Previously, I was doing 404 to 302 but 302 redirects do not keep the request method so 307 is the correct redirect to use. I’d been meaning to update the site for ages and so I finally made some time to do so this week.

#4042307

Screenshot of top half of the 4042307.org web site: Heading: 404 → 307 🌲 A simple gesture for an evergreen web. Navigation: What? Why? How? Get started! View source (git) Fediverse logo (go to Aral’s Mastodon instance) Code block: # nginx configuration on 4042307.org location / { error_page 404 =307 https://2017.4042307.org$request_uri; try_files $uri $uri/ =404; }
Aral Balkan

And, of course, Kitten now has native support for 404 → 307.

codeberg.org/kitten/app#404-30

(Currently for developers to play with via the Kitten.json file but soon to be exposed as a setting in the web-based settings interface.)

#4042307

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Ben Ramsey

@aral I recently did this and found that lots of older clients that used my RSS feed wouldn’t follow the 307 redirect because they hadn’t been updated in 10-15 years.

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Aral Balkan

@ramsey That’s on them. We do the best we can :)

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Ben Ramsey

@aral I switched back to 302 because too many of them were failing to redirect.

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Aral Balkan

@ramsey Fair enough. Would be good to document that. (I’ll make myself a note to do so.)

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