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Re: error url
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Porter)
Mon Aug 22 18:09:49 1994
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 00:03:16 +0200
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From: Jeff Porter <sydporte@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>
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On Mon, 22 Aug 1994, Frans van Hoesel wrote:
> A possible usefull extension (yet another one)
> is to have the page, and/or url contain another url to return
> to the user in case some url fails (now we are forced to live
> with message like .... bla bla server refused ...)
I think that this is a good idea. It would be nice to see the error
message as well, so that it would be possible to differentiate a server
not found from a server timed out, for example. Perhaps a composite of
the error message and a document pointed to by the error url.
// Jeff Porter
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