Experience with 307 HTTP status code

[steffen_]

Hello,

is there anybody how has got some experience with 307 HTTP status code?

We would like to use 307 HTTP status code (temp redirect) for disabling temporary some of our shop-categories where all products are out of stock.

Generally a few days or hours later products are back in stock and category page is also back. Is it a good idea to use 307 beccause link sould be disabled temorary or should we use 301 instead?

Best regards

Steffen

[sesertin]

Hello,

It is definately a bad idea. It is simply because google can not detect that your page is not present due to your supply shortage, it yust sees that page is present sometimes and sometimes it is gone. Now ask yourslef: would you refer somebody to your friend who sometimes does the work that he is asked to do and sometimes he just quites in the middle. I think you should rather refer one who is always there and can be trusted. The same with webpages. No matter how good your page is is it unavailable for shorter and longer periods on a regular basis than it is not trustworthy. You should rather simply wite to the product that it is out of stock. Not to mention that it is much easier to solve this in your cms.