On Fri, 12 May 2017 21:14:01 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Steve D'Aprano > <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> (2) The PHP documentation allows you to search for a term by typing it into >> the URL after the domain, e.g. to search for "split", go to: >> >> http://php.net/split >> >> >> If you try the same thing with the Python docs: >> >> http://python.org/split >> >> you get a 404. Suggestion: 404s should redirect and search the docs. > > So long as we're talking about the existing search functionality, I'm > a big NO on this one. It's way too slow to be used as a general 404.
I agree with ChrisA. That said, if part of the 404 page were a link to such a search, that may be convenient. python.org/split does not exist. Would you like to _search the python documentation for split_? (where the underscore-bracketed text would be a link to https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=split). Dan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list