> Some reason the server cannot return a page with page not found information? It should always do so, but as the payload of the 403 or 404. The HTTP standards say that there should be a fall back document associated with all rejection status reports. Most web servers should be able to do this if the fancy error page is referenced by a local URL, although I find it not uncommon for even such local URLs to be broken and produce a double fault. When things really break is when an absolute URL is used; in that case, the client has to mediate, and sees a redirect for the original URL, not an error, issues the redireted URL, which comes back as a success, so it looks like the original URL was a valid redirection, rather than a broken link. Cheap web hosters are likely to redirect to their branded error page, and therefore require an absolute URL, breaking the semantics.Received on Saturday, 31 January 2004 11:06:43 GMT
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