diff options
| author | Simon McVittie <smcv@ http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/> | 2009-01-31 18:57:12 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Simon McVittie <smcv@ http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/> | 2009-01-31 18:57:12 +0000 |
| commit | f4dd02f00ae5255641b49d60e971f6f298f6a98f (patch) | |
| tree | 226437a9197586fd339fd9a88ace7201fde6a96c | |
| parent | ef3f93b6f668381abb8cebe7ca116e5bf8997069 (diff) | |
Clarify behaviour of 404 handler and link an example
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/apache_404_ErrorDocument_handler.mdwn | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/todo/apache_404_ErrorDocument_handler.mdwn b/doc/todo/apache_404_ErrorDocument_handler.mdwn index e3dd7c345..b580294ca 100644 --- a/doc/todo/apache_404_ErrorDocument_handler.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/apache_404_ErrorDocument_handler.mdwn @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ I think it'd probably have to be a separate CGI script because the environment w (having said that, it might make sense for `recentchanges_link` to return 404 rather than 200 anyway if the page doesn't exist). +> This turns out to be untrue, as long as the wrapper lets a couple of extra +> environment variables through. --[[smcv]] + This would give IkiWiki the behaviour of many other wikis, where visiting a page that does not yet exist prompts you to create it, without having to invoke the CGI for successful requests. @@ -15,4 +18,6 @@ successful requests. Due to [a well-known MSIE misfeature](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q294807), error output needs to be at least 512 bytes long, so some padding might also be required. -Implemented in the 'goto' branch in my git repository. --[[smcv]] +Implemented in the 'goto' branch in my git repository. You can see this +feature in action [on my blog](http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/no/such/page/). +--[[smcv]] |