Re: concepts doc: 404s aren't meaningful?

Aaron,

I take your point.

I think this is set to be reworked in the handling of issue pfps-14.  Are 
you happy that I attach your comment to my notes for dealing with that issue?

#g
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At 09:06 AM 2/14/03 -0600, Aaron Swartz wrote:

>The concepts doc says:
>
>>Issuing an HTTP GET request and obtaining data with a "200 OK" response 
>>code is a technical indication that the received data was published at 
>>the request URI; but data received with a "404 Not found" response cannot 
>>be considered to be similarly published information.
>
>First, the f in Found should probably be capitalized. More importantly 
>though, I don't think that last bit is correct. Most people consider 404 
>error pages to be published. For example, I think the author of:
>
>http://harrumph.com/404
>
>would considered it a published document.
>
>--
>Aaron Swartz [http://www.aaronsw.com/]

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Received on Tuesday, 25 February 2003 12:19:58 UTC