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CGI scripts / Location header
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel DuBois)
Wed Oct 11 12:17:32 1995
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:14:04 -0500
To: www-talk@www0.cern.ch
From: Daniel DuBois <ddubois@rafiki.spyglass.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Scenario: User requests a URL that points to an existant CGI script. CGI
script returns a "Location: localfile.html" header, indicating a
'server-side' redirect, and this file doesn't exist.
Is it proper to send a 404 Not Found message? The URL is found, but the
output of the CGI script isn't. Is it better to send a 500 Internal Error
message?
Does it really matter?
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Dan DuBois, Software Animal http://www.spyglass.com/~ddubois/
I absolutely do not speak for Spyglass.
