[opencms-dev] 404 not returning 404

[Alexander Kandzior]

Joe, 

This appears to be a bug in the 6.0.0 release version. I will fix this in
the CVS HEAD asasp.

Best Regards,
Alex.

Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org 
> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Joe Desbonnet
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:16 AM
> To: The OpenCms mailing list
> Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] 404 not returning 404
> 
> 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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