---- Kalan <[email protected]> schrijft: >> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:59, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: >> In r44919 I've gone ahead and reimplemented bug 2585, so a page view for >> a nonexistent page will return a "404 Not Found" HTTP status code >> instead of a "200 OK". > > Do links of type http://**.wikipedia.org/wiki/redlink to nonexistent > articles really happen that often? They have to be typed by hand, or > otherwise they will be action=edit&redlink=1, which redirects to a > 404ing page only in English Wikipedia and some other wikis, not > everywhere. They happen when third parties link to an article that is later deleted. When search engine crawlers follow such a link, the 404 will tell them it's a dead link.
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