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0 pointsaustin-cheney1y ago0 comments

First of all you shouldn't rely on HTTP headers for traffic identification as that makes a bunch of assumptions. Secondly, look at the example 301 on MDN which contains no identifying information: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/301

Redirected traffic is coming from one or more dedicated locations performing the redirection. The source of redirection is still identifiable by IP address. So, if you know the traffic is coming from the a given IP and is a 301 you have all you need. Even after that the identified traffic, if not bots, can then be further tracked via a variety of client-side things like cookies and localStorage.

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Flimm1y ago

I don't think that's correct. If server A redirects to server B, then server B does not obtain the IP address of server A, only the IP address of the client. Also, the client does not send a "301 request" to server B, it sends a normal GET request. The 301 code only applies to responses, not requests.

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