vorticity Wrote:@JFerio: If a site administrator does some cleaning up of pages, they should return either 300 Multiple Choices, 301 Moved Permanently, or 410 Gone. Of course, no one actually does this, leaving us with the familiar 404 Not Found (and the occasional 302 Found, which is also wrong).It does seem that it's either not being implemented, or worse, a number of site admins deciding that it's not worth the effort to tag the pages individually so that the server knows when it's not a simple case of "file not found".
The best ones, oddly, will go far on the other side and set a redirect for a page they've moved or removed.
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