Does sitemaps tell you the reason for a 404?

Can't seem to find it.......

[trillianjedi]

I've been playing with G sitemaps on a site, and it's unearthed a 404 error:-

www.example.com/download.html

.... which should be:-

www.example.com/downloads.html

That's kind of helpful I thought, what page has that incorrect link on it?

And at that point I got stuck. Any way to get this data?

Without it, the feature is rather useless on a big site.

TJ

[LifeinAsia]

There are a number of options to search for a page with "downloads.html" in it. Most decent HTML editors should have an extended search function for this purpose. On the OS side, if you're using Windows, do a Search. (I'm not a *nix guru, but I assume the various *nix flavors have numerous searching functions.)

[gethan]

I have the same problem - around 100 404's, probably from links on sites that I don't control. There will be 2 categories of 404

1 - an incorrect link - where I want the 404 returned - I'd like to tell sitemaps that this is ok and ignore it in future.
2 - a link that I want - I'll either; fix the link, create a page, or return a 301

I agree - without some additional extension this feature is pointless on a large site.