Thank you for sharing your knowledge. >>> joshua@xxxxxxxx 5/23/2007 12:05 PM >>> 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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