Giacomo - 10:35 am on Jun 12, 2002 (gmt 0)

A useful tip for those using IIS and a custom 404.asp page...

Just add <% Response.Status = "404 Not Found" %> to your 404.asp code. The headers must be written before any output to the client occurs, so just make sure all your HTML and Response.Write's are after that line.

This way, if you fail to include a robots.txt in your root dir, your custom error page will correctly return a "404 Not Found" status code.