HTTP 302

HTTP

Persistence · Compression · HTTP Secure

Headers

ETag · Cookie · Referrer · Location

Status codes

301 Moved permanently

302 Found

303 See Other

403 Forbidden

404 Not Found

The HTTP response status code 302 Found is the most common way of performing a redirection^{[citation needed]}

It is an example of industry practice contradicting the standard HTTP/1.0 specification (RFC 1945), which required the client to perform a temporary redirect (the original describing phrase was "Moved Temporarily"), but popular browsers implemented it as a 303 See Other^{[citation needed]}, i.e. changing the request type to GET regardless of what it had been originally. Therefore, HTTP/1.1 added status codes 303 and 307 to disambiguate between the two behaviours. However, the majority of Web applications and frameworks still use the 302 status code as if it were the 303^{[citation needed]}.

This status code should be used with the location header.

Example

Client request:

GET /index.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.wikipedia.org

Server response:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Location: http://www.wikipedia.org/index.php

See also

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• List of HTTP status codes

External links

• RFC 2616 (HTTP 1.1)
• RFC 1945 (HTTP 1.0)