[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (WFCORE-3416) User redirected with HTTP 301 instead of 302 in admin-only mode

User redirected with HTTP 301 instead of 302 in admin-only mode --------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFCORE-3416 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-3416 Project: WildFly Core Issue Type: Bug Components: Server Affects Versions: 4.0.0.Alpha2 Environment: JBoss EAP 7.1.0.Alpha and 7.0.5 OS : RHEL 7 Reporter: Tomas Hofman Assignee: Tomas Hofman Fix For: 4.0.0.Alpha5, 3.1.0.Final The issue isn't that the console isn't working in admin-only mode. It's that a permanent redirect is issued for a temporary condition. The redirect from the console root URL should use a 302, not a 301, since the appropriate target depends on whether the server was started in admin-only mode. The root URL of the admin console ( / ) does a permanent redirect (301) to the final target. Normally it's a redirect to /console/index.html. But if the server is started in admin-only mode then /console/index.html doesn't return a sensible error (Chrome reports that the connection to the server was lost). If a browser has cached the permanent redirect, it won't be clear why the console isn't working. On the other hand if the server is started in domain-only mode and the browser caches the permanent redirect to /consoleerror/noConsoleForAdminModeError.html, then the browser will continue to load /consoleerror/noConsoleForAdminModeError.html even after the server is started without --admin-only. A 301 redirect is inappropriate since "admin-only" isn't a permanent state.