Page offline for a while... HTTP 307?

Marketing
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I’ve been wondering about which header is best to send when a page on our site is offline for a while.

For instance, we organise a seminar at work every 6 weeks or so. For 4 of those weeks, we have a page online which lists the seminar’s details and houses a registration form.

For the other two weeks the page is ‘offline’.

Is a HTTP/1.1 307 Temporary Redirect the correct header to send? (afterwards I send a location header which send visitors to our homepage).

I know I could send a 503 header, but I don’t really fancy telling Google we’re doing maintenance for 2 weeks :smiley:

Thanks!

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Can’t you just put a text there “There is no seminar at this time. The next seminar will be somewhere around <some date>” ?

Better yet, put up a “Sounds interesting! Please inform me when you know the date of the next seminar, this is my e-mail address: …” form :slight_smile:

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Good idea, we’ll certainly be doing that!

But I have 57 other projects/ enhancements/ tasks/ bugs on my to-do list first :wink: