Is it possible to redirect non-HTML files with HTTP? And chaining redirects?
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Hello, I have been thinking about a neat way of load balancing and one thing that would be required is to be capable of loading an image on an HTML page from multiple locations without rewriting the URL(on each load)
So what I need to be able to do is have one URL which is the "static" URL. Such as http://example.com/myimage.png
The image is not actually contained in example.com
though. So example.com
does a either a 302 or 301 or 307 HTTP response to cause a redirect to 2.example.com
. How do browsers handle this with images like in this situation? Also, how do browsers handle multiple redirections for instance if 2.example.com
also didn't contain it and it went to 3.example.com
? (Note, I am asking this because I've never seen a 301 redirect on anything but an HTML page)
Also, which status code would be best to use. 301 means "moved permanently" which this "move" isn't permanent so I don't want it cached. Should I use 307? Is that supported by search engines and modern browsers?
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