[Gllug] VACANCY: LAMP/WAMP Web Developers Required

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 08:27:52PM +0100, Branden Faulls wrote:
>  Nearly every page will involve a 404 until it is cached.  It is a 
> technique that Rasmus Lerdorf calls "funky caching".  If a page doesn't 
> exist, it gets redirected to a script which either serves dynamic 
> content or generates, and caches the appropriate page.  If you are 
> getting 404's a lot, it may be  that the cache has just been cleared, or 
> you're viewing a page that is never cached.

But delivering 404s is wrong.  Any "solution" which involves sending
404s for valid pages is a bad solution.

Rich.

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