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404 Error "Standards"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Siegel, David)
Thu Aug 17 01:00:47 2000
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:16:41 -0400 (EDT)
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In the process of researching how to "ping" a URL to check its validity, a
quick solution of just checking for a string involving "HTTP 404 Error" and
variations of it presented itself as a quick solution. Is there currently a
"default" standard for web servers for 404 errors? Is there a specific HTTP
header or META tag I can look for in the page that gets returned when the
page does not exist on the server? (This would probably be more consistent -
if it exists)
Any advice here would be great!!!
Thanks,
David Siegel
mailto:david.siegel@dialogic.com
