On 26/01/2008, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
2008/1/26, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
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.
But how about edit pages of pages that do exist? Surely those are very similar to edit pages of pages that don't exist, but I don't see any logic in making THOSE 404s.
Exactly. That's where the problems come in. Both redlinks, "Edit this page" links and hand typed &action=edit urls go to the same page, but only the first ought to be a 404. I don't have a good solution...