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  1. …in reply to @ramsey
    ramsey Ironically, the only (known to me anyway) programmatic way to bust a 301 is with another 301—looping redirects. The browsers are smart enough to notice this, and they retry the original 301. I suspect the same is true of 308, but using 308 indicates “I’ve thought this through."