Saturday, September 15, 2007

404 error pages

The "404 error" or "Page not found" message simply put indicates that a page that a user wants to visit is not available.
A technical definition from W3C.
"The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent."
Definition as extracted from Wikipedia:
"The 404 or Not Found error message is an HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server but either the server could not find what was requested, or it was configured not to fulfill the request and not reveal the reason why."
There is no reason why a 404 error page has to be boring.

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