> From: Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 10 Oct 2002 10:22:55 -0700 > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:22:35PM -0500, Edgar Friendly wrote: > > It's perfectly valid to return the default entry in a cdoc when a > > unknown name is requested. > > I disagree. People expect a 404 when they try to request a page that > doesn't exist - they don't expect to get the site's homepage with no > questions asked, it *is* confusing, and it serves no good purpose - if > the user really wanted the homepage, they would have asked for it. > > Ian.
I have seen one of three options on trying to load a normal webpage that does not exist: 1) regular dumb 404 error that pops up the default 404 browser error message (eg. freenetproject.org ) 2) a popup comes up saying that the connection is refused (eg. www.gnome.org ) 3) a "customised" 404 error that says something like "Sorry about the web page not existing but here is a link to the homepage or an email address for someone that you can complain to" (eg. slashdot.org ) Never ever does it just *silently* go to the default page. It may redirect to a new page but that new URL will then be in the location bar ... not the wrong one that was entered initially. Perhaps option number 3 is something that fproxy could do instead with the map file. Mike _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
