[opencms-dev] 404 not returning 404

[Joe Desbonnet]

Hi Andras,

It is very important that the 404 page returns HTTP status code 404
and not 200. To humans it doesn't matter much, but to various types of
robot that scan the site each day it makes a *big* difference.

Example why it's a problem: Try googling for "opencms 404" (as I did
when researching this problem). Half of the pages indexed there are
OpenCms error messages and not site content.

Joe.



One example why it's a bad ide

On 7/14/05, Andras Balogh <abalogh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Joe,
> 
>     OpenCMS registers itself as 404 handler, this is important for the
> feature "export on demand".
> Why do you want to return 404? Usually you could make a page with a text
> like:
> "Page not found blabla ..."
> 
> Best regards,
> Andras.
> 
> Joe Desbonnet wrote:
> 
> >How do I get the 404 error handler to return a HTTP status code of
> >404? Right now it seems to return 200.
> >
> >I tried
> >response.setStatus(404)
> >in /system/handler/handle404.html JSP script, but that does not appear to work.
> >
> >I know this has been discussed before, but I cannot find the
> >resolution of the problem. Ironically, Googling for "Opencms 404"
> >yields mostly 404 error pages on OpenCms sites which Google mistakes
> >for content due to the 200 response code.
> >
> >Joe.
> >
> >
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