What is the difference between a "simple" redirect and a "precise" redirect?

The "simple" redirect allows you to redirect your URLs without taking into account the parameters that may appear at the end.

In contrast, the "precise" redirect will take these parameters into account.

Concretely, here is what this changes.

If you want to redirect the following three URLs:

The "simple" redirect will consider these three URLs as identical.

This means that if you register a simple redirect in the module indicating the base URL as the source URL: https://www.monsite.com/mapage.php

All other URLs starting with the base URL will automatically be redirected to the destination URL you specified.

The "precise" redirect will consider the three URLs as distinct URLs:

This means that you can redirect each URL to different pages.

  1. https://www.monsite.com/mapage.php to page A
  2. https://www.monsite.com/mapage.php?variable_1=x to page B
  3. https://www.monsite.com/mapage.php?variable_1=x&variable_2=y to page C

This implies that you create a "precise" redirect for each of your source URLs.

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