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because thats not the right way to do that. just look at the site you are on right now:

    > curl -i http://news.ycombinator.com/
    HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
    Location: https://news.ycombinator.com/

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308 is the right way to do it, 301 is the old and slightly buggy way. Specifically, 301 lets a POST get redirected as either a GET or a POST, “for historical reasons”, while 308 guarantees no changes. 308 is not exactly edgy, either, it’s been supported by every browser since 2015.

As far as I'm aware (I have read up on it), 308 is a newer and just as acceptable way of doing it, and in fact it's what Caddy (the webserver I'm using) uses for its built-in HTTP->HTTPS redirect functionality...

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7538

It does seem possible/likely that Bing doesn't understand this though and only understands 301...

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