Webgeek Trivia

[karohemd]

Why error 404?

ETA: Read the linked page, people! (there might be a delay) I'm not asking for it, I'm showing the solution...

Comments

[ua-meruti.livejournal.com]

Because the 403 errors that came before didn't apply?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Read the linked page. :oP

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

(It is not obvious that there is a linked page unless you stay on there for some seconds.)

[ua-meruti.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad someone else noticed that and it wasn't just my addled mind...

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

I am still not sure what you are getting at there that it is www.room404.com or just the error message on the page.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

No, it's not. You have to wait for a few seconds.

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

I assume it is a joke page and not meant to be serious but amusing never the less.

I also wonder while it took a few seconds to looad it isn't like it is that intensive a page ..

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

ahh hang on the first time I clicked I only got the title now I see there is content. Ignore my posts up to now while I read it

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

assuming you want to know why 404 and not some other number. It is the code assigned to a not found message in http code. It could as easily be something else. 4xx codes are error messages and it happens to be the 4th one defined (hence 404).

A list of the responses is here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

and this is a page with links to some customised 404 messages

http://www.sendcoffee.com/minorsage/404error.html