Firefox wants to get rid of your custom 404 error pages

Official plugin takes users to wayback machine instead

[bakedjake]

Mozilla's Test Pilot add-on is rather basic when it comes to that. It reacts only when a 404 not found error is recognized by the add-on. The add-on won't display the prompt if a site returns a different kind of error, or is redirected.

The notification reads: "This page appears to be missing. View a saved version courtesy of the Wayback Machine".

You may click on the link to open the Internet Archive website to read an archived snapshot of the page on the site. Please note that you may middle-click on the link to open the page in a new tab in the Firefox browser.

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[blend27]

• disallow their UA via robots.txt
• block their IP ranges from access to your server
• block their UAs from access to your server

Or better Yet, based on criteria outlined above, provide WayBack Machine a custom content page for every request with the link to your site. Much more fun and useful to the user.

;)

[keyplyr]

provide WayBack Machine a custom content page for every request with the link to your site

Since IA (Wayback Machine) uses (or has used) covert UAs from other IPs, this would not be applicable.

[bakedjake]

Or better Yet, based on criteria outlined above, provide WayBack Machine a custom content page for every request with the link to your site. Much more fun and useful to the user.

Huh. That's a creative idea. Serve pages that you know will be archived in an archive friendly format.