On Mar 28, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Jonathan
Schwartz wrote:
This is by bad. I must not have
explained this properly.
Don't mind Dan's response. The situation
you presented was a little difficult to follow, but Dan lacks the tact
to solicit information in a manner that isn't mildly insulting. Search
the list archives if you need more examples, but please don't take it
personally.
Ask the wrong question, get the wrong answer.
Phew! That being re-stated, how do
I trap these "Forbidden" errors and gracefully deliver users
to a more informative error handling page.
One thing you might consider is using
Apache's built-in facilities to redirect the old URL to the new URL
for that service. This is a bit of an advanced configuration, but it
is a great way to provide the experience you desire and to delve a bit
more into the software that provides web services on Mac OS X Server.
Here's a link to an article on the topic:
This is a lot of overhead for this. The Apache phases of
operation trap errors very efficiently. You should use those methods
rather than the ham handed redirects.
This is a graceful way to solve the
problem in a way that is essentially transparent to your users. While
it won't do anything like force their browser bookmarks to be updated,
it will still get them to the page they expect.
That's a bad practice since you'll need to keep doing this
forever. Better to encourage them to use (and rebookmark) the correct
page and reduce your server overhead.
But it is YAWTDI.
--
-dhan
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