> >>>but the server must return a 403 or 404 status for the broken URL, > > Some reason the server cannot return a page with page not > found information? That's not the issue. It can serve whatever it wants, but needs to send the correct status (403/404) as part of the header as it's doing it as well. To the user, it won't make a difference...they'll see whatever fancy or spartan 404 page you want to create. We're not talking about "don't do any custom 404 pages", which I think is what's causing the confusion... As an example, see http://www.salford.ac.uk/nonexistentfile. You end up with a customised 404 page, but if you looked at the headers for that page, you'd see that instead of status 200 (OK) it sent out 404... Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.ukReceived on Friday, 30 January 2004 08:55:41 GMT
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