ReDirect GONE

running 2.0.49 on xppro

i erased a directory from my server that had a bunch of pictures, it still
gets hits so i used the "redirect gone" to inform them that its no longer
available

some of the pictures are imbedded in a forum, so instead of seeing the 410
html page i made they see a red x.

without making my 410 page a image, is there a way to make it so it'll
display a image saying its gone for the forum's and a htm for ppl directly
linking?

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:37:45 -0400, "Sir_Civik" <sir@sircivik.ca>
wrote:
>
>running 2.0.49 on xppro
>
>i erased a directory from my server that had a bunch of pictures, it still
>gets hits so i used the "redirect gone" to inform them that its no longer
>available
>
>some of the pictures are imbedded in a forum, so instead of seeing the 410
>html page i made they see a red x.
>
>without making my 410 page a image, is there a way to make it so it'll
>display a image saying its gone for the forum's and a htm for ppl directly
>linking?
>

IE will display a broken image icons for the 410 (or 404) response
codes regardless of whether they are images or not. The only way you
can display images for these users is to have them return 200 OK,
which will tell the humans that the images are gone, but won't tell
any intermediate proxies or the resulting user caches that the images
are gone.

I think your best bet is just to let the browser display the broken
image icon. After all, most users will interpret that as "the image is
gone", which is the message you were hoping to give them anyway.

Best regards,
-Claire