Re: error url

Frans van Hoesel (hoesel@chem.rug.nl)
Fri, 16 Sep 1994 20:03:34 +0100 (MDT)


>
> > It would be nice if a document writer could replace the error message
> > with a page of his own design like
>
> > it could be placed inside the head
> > <error = http:.....>
> > or perhaps even differently for each link:
> > <http://normal.url/ err="http://alternative/to.be.used.when.first.failed">
> > simple elegant and very usefull.
>
> I agree too or have an other way to profile at running or compile time
> (not good) the errors message. I don't want edit the source code of the
> server to correct this.

that is not the goal. The goal is to be able to tell the browser (!) what
do do when a specific link does return an error message
(be it permission denied, authorization failer, host unreachable or whatever
the document writer happens to expect for this specific(!) link)
- frans