On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Leo Donahue - RDSA IT < leodona...@mail.maricopa.gov> wrote:
> > Not knowing anything about the history of the HTTP 404 method, if a server > does not find a matching request URI, why was it decided that the protocol > would even respond at all? Seems like the request could have just been > ignored or dropped. > > [Way OT...] > If you get this to work, then the next place you can take this idea is to > the phone company. Why should my phone even ring at all if I know the > caller is from an 800 number... or from some other list of people I don't > care to talk to ... I would love it if those guys had to wait 10 or 20 > seconds between rings... that would be great!! > +1 being facetious here, but IMHO, when André proposed the 'delay 404' (or at least when I started reading this thread earlier this afternoon), I thought, wow, it would be nice to respond to these bots with a 2GB-size html page instead of returning 404. I know such an idea will ever be implemented, but was just a thought. That will surely rock their world and the web server's world (which we don't want, of course).
