Ticket #258 (new defect)
Sending 404 and 403 headers
| Reported by: | NilsLindenberg | Owned by: | unassigned |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 1.4 |
| Component: | architecture | Version: | 1.1.6.2 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | 404 403 robot http header acls |
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Description (last modified by DarTar) (diff)
copied from SuggestionBox --NilsLindenberg
Right now (1.1.6.0), if a non-existant page is requested, the wiki returns status code 200, which will cause the page to be indexed by search engine spiders. It'd probably be better to return 404 (not found) or 410 (gone) or include robots exclusion meta tags in the pages that don't exist. --BarkerJr
Ah, maybe this is why a now non-existent page that I deleted 2 months ago is still getting 50hits or so a day from the porn/vicodin/viagra sites that linked to it (don't ask //me// why...it was a completely inoccuous page)...at least according to the referrers database table. --GmBowen
For pages to which the user has no read-access, do you think it might be feasible/interesting to send - along with the //You aren't allowed to read this page// message - a HTTP header like the following: %%(php) header('HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden');%% -- DarTar
Oh, and maybe 404 headers for missing pages (which would help prevent SE from spidering links to non existing pages)? -- DarTar
