- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:14:20 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> otherwise), that would leave little room for elegant broken link *** handling or so-called marketing Broken links should not be handled by client mediated redirects. It is OK to redirect as a purely internal operation on the server, but the server must return a 403 or 404 status for the broken URL, not, as often happens, a 302 to a 200 for the link is broken page. Returning anything except an error response breaks link checking software.
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