Comments on: 404 Work Around http://www.meryl.net/2005/09/404-work-around/ Content on writing, tech, business, marketing, web design. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:18:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Nick Finck http://www.meryl.net/2005/09/404-work-around/comment-page-1/#comment-847 Nick Finck Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:57:26 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2005/09/02/404-work-around/#comment-847 <p>Ben is right, the server already has the info. I used to run a script that when a user got a 404 it would automatically email me the info and I would put a redirect in place if needed. But that only worked until I started seeing people putting in totally invalid URLs like mydomain.com/http://www.cnn.com/ etc.</p> <p>Anyway, just a thought.</p> Ben is right, the server already has the info. I used to run a script that when a user got a 404 it would automatically email me the info and I would put a redirect in place if needed. But that only worked until I started seeing people putting in totally invalid URLs like mydomain.com/http://www.cnn.com/ etc.

Anyway, just a thought.

]]> By: Mike Wills http://www.meryl.net/2005/09/404-work-around/comment-page-1/#comment-846 Mike Wills Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:31:26 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2005/09/02/404-work-around/#comment-846 <p>This is off topic, but is there a reason you are not doing full text posts in your feed?</p> This is off topic, but is there a reason you are not doing full text posts in your feed?

]]> By: ben http://www.meryl.net/2005/09/404-work-around/comment-page-1/#comment-845 ben Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:21:16 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2005/09/02/404-work-around/#comment-845 <p>What gets me is that the server already has this information, why don't/can't they use it?</p> <p>I gotta figure that in a lot of cases people don't have access to the needed tools, but I'm betting that a lot of people do - and don't know how to use them.</p> <p>On my previous site my custom ErrorDocument referenced this information to redirect if possible, and even in cases where there was no redirect available, I was still able to look at my request logs and see what was going on.</p> What gets me is that the server already has this information, why don’t/can’t they use it?

I gotta figure that in a lot of cases people don’t have access to the needed tools, but I’m betting that a lot of people do - and don’t know how to use them.

On my previous site my custom ErrorDocument referenced this information to redirect if possible, and even in cases where there was no redirect available, I was still able to look at my request logs and see what was going on.

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