andreasfriedrich - 4:01 pm on Mar 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

>>AFAIK, there's no reason why you can't give a dynamic
>>error page with 404 in the headers

No there isnīt. I was only referring to: You could still redirect 404's to another page, but that page should give the 404 header to the user-agent. I do not really see a need why one would do a redirect first, i.e. return a 301/302 status code and then show an error page returning a 404 status code.

>>wouldn't need to re-visit

Thatīs why I was wondering about the benefits of doing a redirect before showing an error message.

Andreas