Re: WAI Checkpoint 7.5: Re-directs

> 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.

Received on Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:15:05 UTC