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Bug#362421: marked as done (wiki.debian.org: Returns 200 OK for non-existing entires, should be 404)

Your message dated Sun, 1 Jun 2008 15:08:12 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #362421,
regarding wiki.debian.org: Returns 200 OK for non-existing entires, should be 404
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Package: www.debian.org
Severity: minor

The wiki returns a "200 OK" response for every page, even ones that
do not exist yet. It would be better if it returned a 404 so these
pages do not get crawled or indexed.

If it's a problem to accomplish that, then the page should at least
use a <meta name="robots" value="noindex,nofollow"> so complying robots
will skip it.

One specific URL affected by this is wiki.debian.org/robots.txt: this
now returns a lot of content not at all in line with the robots.txt
specification. It should return 404 or robots.txt content.

By the way, thanks for the very useful service!


Thijs

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--- Begin Message --- 
Hello,

The problem is now solved, closing the bug.

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 01:38:26PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> The wiki returns a "200 OK" response for every page, even ones that
> do not exist yet. It would be better if it returned a 404 so these
> pages do not get crawled or indexed.

$ wget -S -O /dev/null http://wiki.debian.org/non-existing-page
[..]
  HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

> One specific URL affected by this is wiki.debian.org/robots.txt: this
> now returns a lot of content not at all in line with the robots.txt
> specification. It should return 404 or robots.txt content.

$ wget -S -O /dev/null http://wiki.debian.org/robots.txt
[..]
  HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

-- 
Simon Paillard

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