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New StatusCode Attribute in CFLOCATION
When ColdFusion 7 came out I did a series of blog entries on small often overlooked new features. Well ColdFusion 8 is now out, and I thought it would be a good idea to do the same.
One handy new feature in ColdFusion 8 is the statusCode attribute in the CFLOCATION tag. I wrote a blog entry a while back called What CFLOCATION Does? - it explains that CFLOCATION does an HTTP 302 Moved Temporarily
301 Moved Permanently redirect. When a search crawler sees a 301 redirect it forward all pagerank, backlinks, google juice, whatever you want to call it - on to the new url.
In the past you would have had to do something like this to do a 301 redirect with ColdFusion:
<cfheader statuscode="301" statustext="Moved Permanently"> <cfheader name="Location" value="http://www.petefreitag.com/"> <cfabort>
Now, in ColdFusion 8 you can simply use the CFLOCATION tag with the statusCode attribute:
<cflocation url="http://www.petefreitag.com/" statuscode="301" addtoken="false">
According to the documentation the statusCode attribute accepts the following status code values: 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 307
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Pete Freitag is a software engineer, and web developer located in central new york.
Pete's company Foundeo Inc. builds products for web developers and provides consulting services.
In 2003 Pete published the ColdFusion MX Developers Cookbook with SAMs Publishing.
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