404 page that lets visitors express themselves

Posted by admp on Sunday October 14, 2012 @07:12AM
from the leftlogic.com dept.

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Re:404 page that lets visitors express themselves by ck2 on Sunday October 14, 2012 @09:35AM (#4651422)

Ah I thought it was going to be a feedback form - which would be a good idea.

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Re:404 page that lets visitors express themselves by jawns on Sunday October 14, 2012 @09:16AM (#4651398)

I've seen a lot of creative 404 pages. Some of them are intended to have some extra utility. This one, on the other hand, is intended to be merely novel and fun. And I'd say it succeeds. I especially like that it shares some other pictures that have been created.

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Re:404 page that lets visitors express themselves by antidoh on Sunday October 14, 2012 @08:46AM (#4651350)

If I am directly getting the 404 page, and I receive it, then shouldn't the status code be 200?

  curl -I http://leftlogic.com/info/articles/404
  HTTP/1.1 404 Page not found
  Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:45:07 GMT
  Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) DAV/1.0.3 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/5.4.0
  X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.0
  Connection: close
  Content-Type: text/html

But it was found.

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Re:404 page that lets visitors express themselves by pestaa on Sunday October 14, 2012 @08:53AM (#4651366)

There is no resource on that endpoint so nothing was really found. It is merely arbitrary that applications redirect you to a preconfigured URL to show that error.

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Re:404 page that lets visitors express themselves by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday October 14, 2012 @10:04AM (#4651460)

Yes. Returning content for error pages is normal. The status code indicates this isn't what was expected, but doesn't say you can't produce some other content along with it.

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Re:404 page that lets visitors express themselves by aba_sababa on Sunday October 14, 2012 @10:42AM (#4651507)

Unless that URL is deceiving, and that's not actually the URL for the 404 page - just a URL that doesn't exist that looks like it could be the URL for the 404 page.

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Re:404 page that lets visitors express themselves by ftwinnovations on Sunday October 14, 2012 @01:45PM (#4651997)

A page discussing creative 404s giving me a 502 (where I can not express myself, no less!) is just too delicious.

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Re:404 page that lets visitors express themselves by ipeefreely on Sunday October 14, 2012 @02:33PM (#4652117)

I love that. Worked for me though. Cool idea. I wonder if it increased engagement.

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Re:404 page that lets visitors express themselves by Jakob on Sunday October 14, 2012 @10:35AM (#4651495)

Ironically, now their servers are overloaded because too many people wanted to see their error 404 page.

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Re:404 page that lets visitors express themselves by octagonal on Sunday October 14, 2012 @12:31PM (#4651758)

I wonder, for every vote on a submission here, how many people actually visit the link?

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Re:404 page that lets visitors express themselves by hnriot on Sunday October 14, 2012 @03:23PM (#4652321)

How completely pointless. If I stop by my local hardware store looking for some paint and its closed, then find a little sketch pad where I can draw a picture to express myself if think this was the most stupid thing I've seen all year. What is is this, kindergarten?

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Re:404 page that lets visitors express themselves by laserDinosaur on Sunday October 14, 2012 @03:40PM (#4652364)

Finally!

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