Axel.Thimm at atrpms
Mar 15, 2004, 9:54 PM
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Re: Bad handling of nonexistent URLs on atrpms site
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:16:01PM +0000, Ed Avis wrote:
> When you try to look at a nonexistent page on the atrpms site, for
> example <http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/foo/>, it seems to
> redirect to <http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/> instead of giving a
> 404 http response. This is slightly confusing for the user (was the
> URL I entered valid or not? where did it go?) but more importantly
> will give bad results if the URL later becomes valid and the browser
> has cached the bad redirection, or if for whatever reason a previously
> valid URL stops working. Essentially, for all the reasons we have a
> separate 404 http response code.
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> Suggest changing the site so that a bad URL gives a 404 error; the
> error document can still have a link to the main page.
Thanks, done so. I don't remeber why I changed that back then, it was
not very clever.
BTW atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de and apt.physik.fu-berlin.de will soon
(a couple of weeks) become atrpms.net and download.atrpms.net
respectively. The old addresses will continue to work for a couple of
months though.
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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