[theme-reviewers] Header Redirect: Any Good Reason For This?

[Austin Matzko]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> Checking the diff for an update to a Theme that I had previously approved, I
> found this:
>
> <?php  ( header('Location: http://allfreecms.com') );?>

They've set up the theme so that if someone requests the URL of the
functions sub-directory, it re-directs that request to the theme
developer's site.

It's an unusual alternative to WP's core alternate approach in, for
example, the wp-content/index.php file, which just has the following:

<?php
// Silence is golden.
?>

I don't think it's a sin.  If you're trying to get the web server to
list directory contents you're probably up to no good anyways.