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diff --git a/doc/todo/apache_404_ErrorDocument_handler.mdwn b/doc/todo/apache_404_ErrorDocument_handler.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4ae1d1a79 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/apache_404_ErrorDocument_handler.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Apache's ErrorDocument directive lets you write a CGI script that will be invoked for all 404s. +IkiWiki could offer one as an optional wrapper; it would do much the same thing that the +existing recentchanges_link (or [[generic___39__do__61__goto__39___for_CGI]]) does when +encountering a nonexistent page. + +I think it'd probably have to be a separate CGI script because the environment with which +404 handlers are invoked is somewhat odd, and because it needs to return a 404 status +(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. + +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. You can see this +feature in action [on my blog](http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/no/such/page/). +--[[smcv]] + +[[done]] |