I'm fighting IIS - I have setup 301s from www.oldomain.com/page1.htm (http://www.oldomain.com/page1.htm) >> www.newomain.com/page1.htm (http://www.newomain.com/page1.htm). Fine.

It works, but reports:

"HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 301 Error"

1. Why? I think it's an IIS "quirk"

2. Does this have an impact on the crawlers? Some sites suggest it does, logic suggests they will only look at the code not this message text and index the new location of the pages.

Does anybody know / has experienced this?

Which version of IIS are you running? ... I have been able to 301 redirect with IIS for years (NT, 2000, 2003) with proper header codes being sent. What you are describing is not common (or at least I have never run into it).


Scott Polk