On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:30:27AM +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote:
That's a good point. Why doesn't MediaWiki return a 404 when a page isn't found? As far as I know, we could show exactly the same page, it's just a matter of changing the status header from 200 to 404. Same applies to redirects - HTTP has a "Page Moved" code, or something similar, which we should return.
Notably, while I haven't tested it, I suspect that the default IE config's "friendly HTTP error messages" setting would cause problems with this.
Cheers, -- jra