php 301 redirects actually doing a 302 redirect

Question

I have been googling for this but no one appears to have the answer.

This post describes the problem well:

http://www.mail-archive.com/php-general@lists.php.net/

Answer 1

I don't have PHP here to test this, but wouldn't this produce a 301?

header('Location: http://www.example.com/', true, 301);