On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Jon Drukman <jsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nate Tallman wrote: > >> Why is an ErrorDocument "insufficient" or "not the elegant way"? >> It accomplishes the goal in a clean way, no? >> > > It's *WRONG*. ErrorDocument still preserves the 404 error code, it just > gives it a prettier face. If the page really is there, returning a 404 for > it is not correct. Search engines will not index it. You probably don't > want that. > > Not to beat a dead horse, but why would you *not* want to preserve the 404? If it's a bad url anyways, you probably *want* to return a 404 (albeit prettier) and you probably *don't* want search engines indexing it.
