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 More options Aug 20 2008, 5:05 am
From: JohnMu
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:05:38 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Aug 20 2008 5:05 am
Subject: Re: An easy way to make your 404 pages useful!
Hi developdaly
I tried it out on your site, but there's a problem with the 404 pages
-- they redirect to an error page, which makes the widget try to
suggest alternatives for the error page :-(

For example, when I try: http://www.memorycardzoo.co.uk/53/Lexar/JumpDrive-Lightning/4GB/
(instead of /853/...) it redirects me to
http://www.memorycardzoo.co.uk/error/404.aspx?page=%2f53%2fLexar%2fJu...
which is hard to find a match for... A clean 404 would be great, if
that's possible. I did however notice that your system handles typos
in the rest of the URL really nicely, cool!

Hi JLH,
The problem is not that things will break completely, but rather that
in the worst case, we'll only be able to show a site-search box. As in
your case, the /monkeys URL is not something we could correct to
anything sensible (at least as far as I can tell :-)). A URL like
http://www.jlh-design.com/contactt/ however, would probably be
something we could suggest something better for.

Also, this is one situation where a HTML sitemap page actually makes
sense: provided we can find it, we'll link to it as well.

John


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