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No validation on 'A' page numbers.
Sean D Solle Started conversation Nov 14, 2010
On the old site, specifying an invalid page …
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/a42
… would return suggestions:
A342: Biltong
A423: Oranges
The beta …
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/beta/entry/a42
… redirects to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/beta/review_forums/
With a "resource not found" error.
No validation on 'A' page numbers.
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Nov 14, 2010
"Page not found" errors should never redirect! How can you fix typos when they've redirected? You have to start typing again from scratch. I know few people type URLs in directly any more, but it does still happen occasionally.
(YouTube is the worst for this.)
TRiG.
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