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Re: Not at all a pact with the devil...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:31:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> Todd chose not to do what other implementors did. Instead you get a page
> lecturing you. It's an example of a difference in thinking... I suspect it's
> an example of anti MS bias as manifested in an implementation decision here,
Well, guess what. You suspect wrong.
By the time my handler realizes that the page doesn't exist, it has already
output the HTTP header. Thus, it can't easily go back and redirect the page
at that point with a 'Location:' header. I'll figure out some tricky way
around it, I'm sure, for the case of URLs typed in by hand.
For the case of URLs that are links from web pages, however, the error page
will most certainly stay as is -- and that's what it was designed to cover.
> as I suspect that if it were not an MS mistake he would have handled it
> differently. That's conjecture, really, the QED was a bit hasty.
It actually has absolutely nothing to do with MS. To wit, it has almost
everything to do with people making links wrong on web pages, and wanting
to prevent propagation of that. It's unfortunate that it balks at people
when they type a URL in wrong by hand. That part's my fault.
> It could be a perception on my part rather than a real bias. Who knows?
Who cares?!?!?!
> This is rather a small topic...
Now we're getting some where. Thank you. Finally.
--Todd
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