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Reply from William Beh

William Beh

Cool. Didn't thought of using it this way especially for error message into the header.

Reply from Fabian Robok

Fabian Robok

Unfortunately, you might be able to set any, but not every header (hope this little play of words is even correct): You cannot set the Status directly. For most parts, this is good and well, because Domino should know what Status to return.

The downside is, that Domino does not allow us to create a 301 permanent redirect, neither through programming, nor through configuration. For this special case, I wish you could override the HTTP Status.

Reply from Michael

Michael

Careful. I heard that jakester v0.999999999 servers have issues serving up RSS feeds. ;)

Reply from Lance Spellman

Lance Spellman

I'll be darned. I know now I've encountered this issue in the past (the debugging error: statement) and hadn't realized what was happening. Thanks!

Reply from Kerr

Kerr

I hadn't thought of doing a redirect by changing the location header before, I normally just use the square bracket method, but I have been tripped up regularly by the old problem of spitting out some debugging code that had a colon and was interpreted as a header.

A related not to this (that I'm sure you know Jake) is that if you set *any* header this way, you need to supply the complete content of the page, Domino will *not* put in the html and body tags that it would do otherwise.

Another good tip to remember is that you can set the charset in the Content-Type header, but be careful, domino can be *very* picky about recognising it. use:

Content-type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8