Drupals 404 handler could be modified to return files of an appropriate mime type... defaul missing images etc...Its something I was thinking of implement in some file work I'm doing. On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 16:41 -0500, Morbus Iff wrote:
handled by Drupal <FilesMatch "\.(gif|jpe?g|png|html|css|js)$"> ErrorDocument 404 default </FilesMatch>
This makes Apache handle 404 errors for typical html and image files.
Should this be submitted officially?
I will agree that this is useful, with the suggestion that "html" becomes "s?html?", for those using .shtml or .htm files.
In talking this over with [Zen|\|gatsby\|], I no longer think that .html, of any extension, should be included in this list. Drupal shouldn't give or generate 404s for broken *embedded* files that it ships with, like gif, jpegs, css, js, etc. just like you have. Good.
HTML files, however, are never embedded (I'll ignore, for the sake of sanity, crap like IFRAMES), and should receive the same 404 treatment as other "major" content, like those generated by a Drupal node.