How do I deal with an occassional 302 HTTP error

Question

I have read that 302 HTTP errors are not supposed to appear frequently even if you do receive one of them. the problem is they appear one out of 10 times in a page redirect in my script. Have you had any experiences with this before? I am using a PHP framework called Kohana.

Answer 1

For Kohana 2.3.4, url::redirect() uses the 302 method. You may specify a different method as a second parameter in the url::redirect function. The available methods are shown in the source:

    $codes = array
    (
        'refresh' => 'Refresh',
        '300' => 'Multiple Choices',
        '301' => 'Moved Permanently',
        '302' => 'Found',
        '303' => 'See Other',
        '304' => 'Not Modified',
        '305' => 'Use Proxy',
        '307' => 'Temporary Redirect'
    );

Answer 2

302 is not an error, it's a successful response, which basically means "Moved temporarily", and is quite regularly used to perform redirection in web applications.

I'm not sure what you're doing to cause 10 redirects to happen, but the fact that you're redirecting via 302 is not something to worry about, in and of itself.

Answer 3

302 is not an error, it's used for redirecting to another resource (e.g. another page)