Always SSL and 302 redirect

[Vamsi Krishna Penumatsa]

Hello,

I have used security constraints section in appengine-web.xml to redirect all the http requests on my site to https. The redirect works flawlessly, however I have noticed that appengine is issuing a 302 redirect. I want the appengine to use a 301 redirect, for SEO purposes.

Is there any method/mechanism to make appengine redirect using 301 rather than 302.

Thank,

Vamsi

[Adam]

This was discussed in an older public issue which was closed as it's implemented this way due to a design philosophy. However there is an easy workaround - you can issue a 301 redirect manually in your own servlet code if you detect the request URL is HTTP (first remove the security constraint to allow both HTTP and HTTPS by default):

if (!request.isSecure()) {

  response.setStatus(301);

  // Get original path from request....

  response.setHeader(“Location”, “https://” + originalPath);

}

Cheers,

Adam

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