[thelist] Designing ErrorDocs

[Chris W. Parker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: carole guevin [mailto:carole at pixeltable.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 12:24 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: RE: [thelist] Designing ErrorDocs

> I'm sorry they can make a *save as* of the page but recently netdiver
> underwent bad-bad copycat - for instance when the *css* directory was
> *opened* you could actually go and fetch the css... well a LOT of
> freakin' work goes into building css... don't mind sharing - but ask
> before...

you can still download the css files. i just tried it and it worked. i
don't plan on using it btw, but my point is that you haven't really
restricted anything and timothy's point of "If it's on the site they can
copy it" still stands.

> > I wouldn't recommend an automatic redirect, and certainly not
> > as quickly as
> > 5 seconds for a page with tiny print in a light color font.
>
> It really doesn't matter to me if someone can read or not - since they
> have reached a no-no directory - they are redirected to the what's new
> page - or the top most page where the navigation is available.

in that case why have a page display at all? maybe you should have a
blank page display for 1 second or less and then redirect or just allow
the standard "Directory Browsing Disabled" page display? or maybe a
similar message?


chris.