Posted by Philip Ronan on 12/07/05 00:44

"Matt Probert" wrote:

> Explained? That's an interesting term to use with regard to the Apache
> documentation! I find the Apache documentation to be slightly less
> intelligible than if it were written in Ancient Greek.

This seems perfectly clear to me:

>> Note that when you specify an ErrorDocument that points to a remote URL
>> (ie. anything with a method such as "http" in front of it), Apache will
>> send a redirect to the client to tell it where to find the document,
>> even if the document ends up being on the same server. This has several
>> implications, the most important being that the client will not receive
>> the original error status code, but instead will receive a redirect
>> status code. This in turn can confuse web robots and other clients
>> which try to determine if a URL is valid using the status code.

<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/core.html#errordocument>

Where's the problem?

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