From: Simon McVittie Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:57:12 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Clarify behaviour of 404 handler and link an example X-Git-Tag: 3.04~90 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?p=ikiwiki.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f4dd02f00ae5255641b49d60e971f6f298f6a98f Clarify behaviour of 404 handler and link an example --- 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]]