- From: Andrew Daviel <andrew@andrew.triumf.ca>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:24:43 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Arnoud Galactus Engelfriet <galactus@htmlhelp.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Arnoud Galactus Engelfriet wrote: > > 1) Redirect people using a 301 to the new location > 2) After some time, put up a stub server which only gave a "We > have moved, click here for new location" message on each request > (of course tailored for the specific URL), with a 404 code. Sounds a good ides; I hadn't tried that. I guess browsers do usually display a page with 404, and robots should drop the URL. It would be nice to do the whole thing in one go, but things are a bit too entrenched for that. > Still, I think an HTTP code would be more appropriate than an *HTML* > extension. Locating a document is, after all, an HTTP feature. I guess most people only have access to HTML and META tags, otherwise the 301/302 status was supposed to deal with moving. Andrew
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