The HTTP response status code 302 Found is the most common way of performing a redirection.
It is an example of industrial practice contradicting the standard. HTTP/1.0 specification (RFC 1945) required the client to perform a temporary redirect (the original describing phrase was "Moved Temporarily"), but popular browsers implemented it as a 303 See Other. Therefore, HTTP/1.1 added status codes 303 and 307 to disambiguate between the two behaviours. However, the majority of Web applications and frameworks still use the 302 status code as if it were the 303.
This status code should be used with the location header.
Example
GET /index HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Location: http://www.wikipedia.org/index.php
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