[sambar] How to return 410 error?

[Richard Klein]

My server gets a lot of requests for a movie that I deleted well over a 
year ago.  I just noticed that the HTTP spec includes a "Gone" status 
code: 410.  I used the mappings to redirect requests for the movie to an 
error page.

Here's a link for the movie:
http://rich.richardklein.org/movies/test.mpg
and here's the mapping I used for it:
[aliases]
/movies/test.mpg = ../messages/gone.htm
My main problem is that the surfer's browser gets the error page, but 
gets a 200 status code instead of a 410:
"GET /movies/test.mpg HTTP/1.1" 200 375 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; 
Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7"
So how do I get Sambar to send a 410 status code?

Also, is it okay to use the parent directory characters (../) in the 
mapping above?  It seems to work, but I'm concerned that bumping the 
surfer up out of the docs directory could introduce a security weakness.

Thanks!
        -Rich


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