Hello,
When the wiki has problems talking to the database, it responds with a
message saying "Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical
difficulties, and cannot contact the database server.". That's fine.
However, it seems that the message is sent along with an HTTP status code
of 200 (OK). I suggest that such error messages be delivered with an HTTP
status code of 500 (internal server error). This will prevent un-cool
things such as search engines recording an error page.
If my suggestion is accepted, then the text of the error message should be
expanded a bit (possibly using a number of whitespaces), so that Internet
Explorer will not replace the error message with its own "user friendly"
messages (i.e. MSN commercials).
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Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark