[Mediawiki-l] 404 handling to shorten urls, header 200 OK doesn't work

Hi !

I've changed my "404 handling" to shorten my URLs.

If you call http://tousauxbalkans.jexiste.fr/Agenda the page displays in the browser, but if I look the header, using a downloader (httrack, nettransport...), I get this :

2006-07-14 14:13:27.765 Connecting to tousauxbalkans.jexiste.fr:80 2006-07-14 14:13:27.859 Connecting to 84.207.24.9:80 2006-07-14 14:13:27.953 Connected 2006-07-14 14:13:27.953 GET /Agenda HTTP/1.1 2006-07-14 14:13:27.953 Host: tousauxbalkans.jexiste.fr 2006-07-14 14:13:27.953 Cookie: tousauxbalkans_wiki__session=4c3m8g5rc1bata9427cs3cvid2; tousauxbalkans_wiki_UserID=1; tousauxbalkans_wiki_UserName=Iubito; tousauxbalkans_wiki_Token=100B814B9E1E60E57FBF45BF33C45428 2006-07-14 14:13:27.953 Accept: */* 2006-07-14 14:13:27.953 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.00; Windows 98) 2006-07-14 14:13:27.968 Connection: Keep-Alive 2006-07-14 14:13:30.250 HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found 2006-07-14 14:13:30.250 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:08:16 GMT 2006-07-14 14:13:30.250 Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_tsunami/3.0 mod_layout/3.2.1 2006-07-14 14:13:30.250 Cache-Control: private, must-revalidate, max-age=0 2006-07-14 14:13:30.265 Content-language: fr 2006-07-14 14:13:30.265 ETag: W/"tousauxbalkans:pcache:idhash:2842-0!1!0!2!!fr!2--20060714065302" 2006-07-14 14:13:30.265 Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT 2006-07-14 14:13:30.265 Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie 2006-07-14 14:13:30.281 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.2-1.1 2006-07-14 14:13:30.281 Set-Cookie: tousauxbalkans_wiki__session=4c3m8g5rc1bata9427cs3cvid2; path=/ 2006-07-14 14:13:30.281 Last-Modified: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:46:00 GMT 2006-07-14 14:13:30.281 Connection: close 2006-07-14 14:13:30.296 Transfer-Encoding: chunked 2006-07-14 14:13:30.296 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 2006-07-14 14:13:30.296 HTTP Error

and the downloader doesn't continue because it receive a HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

My .htaccess simply contains the following instruction : ErrorDocument 404 /404.php5

In 404.php5, I include index.php that's why the browser get the page. Even if I set header 200 OK, it receive a 404 not found.

Here is my 404.php5 code : <?php header('HTTP/1.1 200 OK'); $title = substr(getenv('REQUEST_URI'), 1); $title = str_replace('index.php?title=', '', $title); $title = str_replace('index.php5?title=', '', $title); $_GET['title'] = urldecode($title); $_POST['title'] = urldecode($title); $_REQUEST['title'] = urldecode($title); include('index.php5'); ?>

If I replace the include by a redirect, I receive a 302, a redirect to index.php5 and then a 200. header("Location: index.php5?title='.$title); 2006-07-14 14:30:25.359 Connecting to tousauxbalkans.jexiste.fr:80 2006-07-14 14:30:25.437 Connecting to 84.207.24.9:80 2006-07-14 14:30:25.546 Connected 2006-07-14 14:30:25.546 GET /Agenda HTTP/1.1 2006-07-14 14:30:25.546 Host: tousauxbalkans.jexiste.fr 2006-07-14 14:30:25.546 Cookie: tousauxbalkans_wiki__session=4c3m8g5rc1bata9427cs3cvid2; tousauxbalkans_wiki_UserID=1; tousauxbalkans_wiki_UserName=Iubito; tousauxbalkans_wiki_Token=100B814B9E1E60E57FBF45BF33C45428 2006-07-14 14:30:25.546 Accept: */* 2006-07-14 14:30:25.546 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.00; Windows 98) 2006-07-14 14:30:25.562 Connection: Keep-Alive 2006-07-14 14:30:25.921 HTTP/1.1 302 2006-07-14 14:30:25.921 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:25:13 GMT 2006-07-14 14:30:25.921 Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_tsunami/3.0 mod_layout/3.2.1 2006-07-14 14:30:25.921 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.2-1.1 2006-07-14 14:30:25.937 Location: index.php5?title=Agenda 2006-07-14 14:30:25.937 Connection: close 2006-07-14 14:30:25.937 Transfer-Encoding: chunked 2006-07-14 14:30:25.937 Content-Type: text/html 2006-07-14 14:30:25.953 Redirect to http://tousauxbalkans.jexiste.fr/index.php5?title=Agenda 2006-07-14 14:30:25.953 Connecting to tousauxbalkans.jexiste.fr:80 2006-07-14 14:30:25.968 Connecting to 84.207.24.9:80 2006-07-14 14:30:26.062 Connected 2006-07-14 14:30:26.062 GET /index.php5?title=Agenda HTTP/1.1 2006-07-14 14:30:26.062 Host: tousauxbalkans.jexiste.fr 2006-07-14 14:30:26.062 Cookie: tousauxbalkans_wiki__session=4c3m8g5rc1bata9427cs3cvid2; tousauxbalkans_wiki_UserID=1; tousauxbalkans_wiki_UserName=Iubito; tousauxbalkans_wiki_Token=100B814B9E1E60E57FBF45BF33C45428 2006-07-14 14:30:26.062 Accept: */* 2006-07-14 14:30:26.078 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.00; Windows 98) 2006-07-14 14:30:26.078 Connection: Keep-Alive 2006-07-14 14:30:26.718 HTTP/1.1 200 OK 2006-07-14 14:30:26.718 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:25:14 GMT 2006-07-14 14:30:26.718 Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_tsunami/3.0 mod_layout/3.2.1 2006-07-14 14:30:26.718 Cache-Control: private, must-revalidate, max-age=0 2006-07-14 14:30:26.734 Content-language: fr 2006-07-14 14:30:26.734 ETag: W/"tousauxbalkans:pcache:idhash:2842-0!1!0!2!!fr!2--20060714065302" 2006-07-14 14:30:26.734 Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT 2006-07-14 14:30:26.734 Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie 2006-07-14 14:30:26.750 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.2-1.1 2006-07-14 14:30:26.750 Set-Cookie: tousauxbalkans_wiki__session=4c3m8g5rc1bata9427cs3cvid2; path=/ 2006-07-14 14:30:26.765 Last-Modified: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:46:00 GMT 2006-07-14 14:30:26.765 Connection: close 2006-07-14 14:30:26.765 Transfer-Encoding: chunked 2006-07-14 14:30:26.765 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 2006-07-14 14:30:26.781 Receiving datas 2006-07-14 14:30:26.890 Finish At 14181 2006-07-14 14:30:26.906 Download finished.

How do you explain in the first case I get a 404 error in 3 seconds, and in the other case a 302 really quickly, whereas my .htaccess didn't changed, and I never send header("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found") in my code ?

-- Sylvain http://iubito.free.fr http://tousauxbalkans.jexiste.fr