redirect issues

[shreehari nair]

I have created a redirect component

when the system finds a missing page, it will throw a 301 ( Moved Permanently ) and redirect to a page

I am implementing the redirect as shown below

response.setStatus(301);
response.setHeader( "Location", "http://www.new-url.com/" );
response.setHeader( "Connection", "close" );

but when i use the above code,

if you specify

<a href="http://softwarewip3.corp.com:1001/about_us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://softwarewip3.corp.com:1001/about_us</a> ---then  it Redirects but it is throwing 302 rather than 301

and when you give

http://softwarewip3.corp.com:1001/about_us/index.htm --it Redirects and it is throwing 301

why is it so , am i missing something ? is there any better way to throw 301 and redirect ?

master's .. please help me

[David O'Meara]

Have you checked the HTTP headers in the response?

I am wondering if the first is being detected by the container as a directory request and is being automatically redirected to the welcome file, rather than running through your '301' code.

The correct behaviour when a resource is not available is to return 404. Doing otherwise may have unforeseen consequences.