Rewrite vs Redirect from ?p={ID}

A rewrite enables http://example.com/post-title/ to translate internally to the proper query vars to load the requested post. The shortlink does a 301 redirect to the pretty URL because it should not be possible to access the same content from more than one URI. This is so a search engine won’t index the same post under two URIs.

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