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by true_religion 4104 days ago
A 301 avoids a database hit, and avoids having to go through the cache framework all together.

It just says given this URL, we return an header that tells the browser to redirect. The only thing faster would be just dropping the connection as soon as its given to you.

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Excuse me, Why no 403 or 404?
If I scroll up a bit, I see the reason is:

> redirect the workload to some Chinese government's website and let them suffer what they've created.