On 26/01/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Using referers
isn't necessary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gil_Prescott&action=edit is
different from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Prescot. Red links
point to the former, which is clearly a 200 OK. A "link from external
site or typing in the url" would presumably go to the latter.
But the "Edit this page" link points to the &action=edit too, but that
certainly shouldn't return any kind of error code, since it does
exactly what it says on the tin.
Hang on, I've missed your point slightly there. A redlink should not
be a 200 OK, since it's a link to a page that doesn't exist (yes, it
actually points to an edit page which does exist, but conceptually
it's a broken link). A web crawler should see it as a broken link,
it's only not broken if you're intending to contribute, not just read.