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A redirect is not a forward

January 28, 2005

Ugh. For the last time, redirect is not that same as a forward (or server.transfer for ASP folks). It's just not; they have inherently different purpose and effect to the user. So if you're building a product/framework for the web, say, oh, Microsoft's CMS Server, then it should probably work with both. Sadly, no such luck. Without going diving in the internals, there's no supported way to transfer control to a CMS template without an extra client round trip. F'in brilliant.

If you're still mixing up what a redirect is vs. a forward/transfer, go look it up.

Update: Fixed the HTML link and some wording. Man, I get incoherent at night when I'm tired recently...

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