[Mediawiki-l] request if article exists

[Rowan Collins]

On 13/08/05, Jamie Bliss <astronouth7303 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Couldn't you just use a HEAD request?

HEAD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Asdfasgasdfghsfghsfghs
--> 200 OK

So, no. For that matter,

GET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Asdfasgasdfghsfghsfghs
--> 200 OK
HEAD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asdfasgasdfghsfghsfghs --> 200 OK
GET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asdfasgasdfghsfghsfghs --> 200 OK

And no, that page doesn't exist. ;)

So this seems to still be a desired feature, rather than an existing
one - though as I say, I thought I remembered it too; maybe somebody
coded it but it broke?

-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]