404s aren't meaningful? from Aaron Swartz on 2003-02-14 (www-rdf-comments@w3.org from January to March 2003) (original) (raw)

The concepts doc says:

Issuing an HTTP GET�request and obtaining data with a "200 OK" response code is a technical indication that the received data was published at the request URI; but data received with a "404 Not found" response cannot be considered to be similarly published information.

First, the f in Found should probably be capitalized. More importantly though, I don't think that last bit is correct. Most people consider 404 error pages to be published. For example, I think the author of:

http://harrumph.com/404

would considered it a published document.

-- Aaron Swartz [http://www.aaronsw.com/]

Received on Friday, 14 February 2003 10:06:41 UTC