> However, sensible as it sounds, it's not what's happening :-( My
> original post was incorrect (it was late :-( ) and the count of 200
> result codes I gave was in fact the count of ALL matches in the logs
> for the redirected files on serverB, which did contain a significant
> number of 304s. Apologies for the confusion, but the basic question
> remains the same - why do 25% of the requesters to the original
> server not follow the redirect?
Pull out the heavy guns... Grab a tcpdump for a few minutes on the
two servers and get down and dirty :-)
If you can isolate a working and non-working case in the logs and
look at the HTTP traffic for those requests in detail, you might
find enlightenment.
Later,
Kenn
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