[WEB4LIB] 404s Redux

[Avi Rappoport]

You may want to make sure that your server does in fact return a 404 
while displaying the error page (I know they can do this, because my 
server, WebSTAR on Mac OS does the right thing).

If you do some kind of redirect, robots, such as search engine 
crawlers, may become thoroughly confused and index the target page 
with the original URL.  That would be bad.

Avi
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