>From harik at chaos.ao.net >On Sat, 02 Nov 2002, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > >> In a related vein, DNF and friends should perhaps be 404s. > >Only if you want fproxy to be unusable. Too many broken browsers >substitute their own crap for the server-supplied 404. >
If IE is set to "show friendly HTTP error messages" it will replace the server-supplied error message with IE's if the message the server gives is smaller than a certain size. (512 bytes for 404 on my XP system; it's listed in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\ErrorThresholds). I think most of our error messages are larger than this already, but if we pad them out to be large enough it shouldn't be a problem. I haven't tested this yet, but it's documented at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q218155&; -- Benjamin Coates _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
