On 26/01/2008, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
I'm not sure that 404 is the correct response though. Wouldn't it be more correct for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Prescot to return a temporary redirect to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gil_Prescott&action=edit?
That would be doing away with the "No page by exists by this title" page completely - do we want to do that?
You're right, I was confused. I was thinking the two pages were the same. They're similar, for users that aren't logged in, but not the same.
I guess 404 would be the right result for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Prescott.
As for http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gil_Prescott&action=edit, I guess it depends if you think action=edit really means action=editorcreate. If it does (and de facto, it currently does), then logged in users should get a 200 and logged out users should get...a 403 Forbidden?
On wikis were anon page creation is blocked (which is far from every wiki - it may well be a minority), yes, I guess 403 would be correct (and for blocked users, anon users on wikis completely closed to anon editing, protected pages... only issue with some of those is that they're temporary, does 403 meant to be used for temporary restrictions?).