Re: Links going stale (was: Proper use of domain names).

["Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk at cisco.com>]

Sez Lloyd Wood:
> The main problem with stale links is that browsers do not fire off a
> notification to the server of the referring page, saying 'I tried this
> link from this page, and I got a 3/4 code, so in making the hyperlink
> a bidirectional thing, I thought I'd tell you'. If e.g. Apache
> cached/recorded this received information in error logs, repairing
> links would be a much more timely process.

Read your access log; all URLs and reponse codes are recorded there,
including 3xx and 4xx.

The server _sent_ the status code; there's no need for the client to inform
the server of what the server already knows.

S

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