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Re[4]: exists of file on www-server?

• Posted by "Thomas Parslow (PatRat)" <tom at almostobsolete.net> Apr 09, 2002
• 362 views

> On 8 Apr 2002, at 21:53, Thomas Parslow (PatRat) wrote:

>> 
>> > This might be difficult as some webservers don't return 404 when
>> > page not found, but create a HTML (with graphics and ads)
>> > saying it to you...
>> 
>> >     Martin
>> 
>> They should still send a 404 status code in the headers though...
>
> Or the redirect to the page with the not-found explained in english,,, or
> both.
> Or see the post i just sent on how to play it smart, no matter what they 
> return. Been there, done that. 
>
> Kat

I've never seen a web server that doesn't return a status code of 404
with a not found page, not that I've looked very hard. Do you have an
example we could look at to see if there would be another way of
determining it?

Thomas Parslow (PatRat)
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