On 5/23/07, Matt Rigor <MRigor@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Joshua, Three questions in hopes of bettering my understanding of Apache. Why not just edit the conf file to take the 403 error and have it redirect to the Apache 404 error page within the error directory? Example below. ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var ErrorDocument 404 /error/HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var
Because in addition to the error document itself, the server transmits a status code as part of the HTTP response. So someone looking at the full network stream could still see the difference.
As an alternative, why not just edit the actual 403 error page contents to reflect the error you desire.
Same problem.
Finally, You mention that "it's more than a waste of time, it is deliberately crippling of HTTP". Why?
Owen gave a good answer to this. Ask yourself why the authors of the HTTP spec decided to have status codes in the first place. Or why not just two codes: success and failure. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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