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Re: Comprehensive list of issues with dereferencing a link? St

• From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• To: Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 23:29:28 +0100

> On 26 Jun 2015, at 22:49, Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net> wrote:
> 
>> What else?
> 
> The resource's server returns one or another error other than 404.
> 

It’s not only the resource’s server. We’ve found with XSLT testing that the same test can pass or fail depending who your ISP is. Some ISPs, if they get a 404 response from a server, substitute it with a friendly HTML page saying something like “This domain is for sale. Only 3s 6d per fortnight. Buy Now!!!”. Well, not quite that perhaps… But if you want to test that your client app can handle a 404, you’re stymied.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

• References:
  • Comprehensive list of issues with dereferencing a link?Stress-testing link crawlers
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: Comprehensive list of issues with dereferencing a link?Stress-testing link crawlers
    • From: Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net>