- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 10:26:57 -0400
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: Herbert Van de Sompel <hvdsomp@gmail.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 8/8/2016 11:58 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > Let's say a user has bookmarked a page for reference. And that page has > moved, but is yet archived. I can see value for a user to see the material > that she had seen before, from an archived version. Your example is of a page you describe as "moved". Shouldn't the server return 301 for that? (Or possibly 303 - See other)? > 4xx is indicated to the user agent, and I think that fundamentally in web arch the user is the ultimate curator of the content presented. Yes, as I acknowledged in my post, but from a protocol point of view 404 means "doesn't exist" (Not found). If there's a real need for "Not found, but please offer users an old version if available" I would think a new 40X code would be the more architecturally robust way of giving the server control. Noah
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