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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: July 28, 2002 WebWord Comment -- I finally created a useful 404 Error Page for WebWord. You should do the same thing. It's so easy it hurts. Read MadMan's article if you need some inspiration.
Reader Comments...
Good one, John. Brief, links to possible places, and doesn't insult the reader. Posted by: meryl on July 30, 2002 06:18 PM
You shouldn't need to be asking your readers for information about the page they were trying to access and where the bad link was located. All of that should be in the server's logs. (Except for readers whose browsers don't send referrer information.) Posted by: Dave Menendez on July 30, 2002 11:53 PM
Dave, you are probably right. However, what I have now is 100% better than what I had before. I often take things like this in baby steps. I only throw code at a problem if I can't do it any other way. I'm a writer more than a developer! Posted by: John S. Rhodes on July 31, 2002 07:31 AM
MadMan, you know that when you say things like "Trap the refererring page (Use the "HTTP_REFERER" server variable) and automatically send an email message to the Webmaster of the site, notifying him/her of i) The URL with the error and ii) The referring page..." that my eyes glaze over. ;-)
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