what I think would have been the best solution is the patch made for the minority of large traffic sites this would be useful for. In other words, this block-free 404 should be opt-in, not opt-out. The majority of sites don't have the traffic to justify it.

as for the timing, I know my 404's had blocks "at some point" in the past and either my 5.8 or 5.10 update seems to have zapped them. Who knows....

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Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 11:42 PM

Subject: Re: [support] Suddenly, my 404 page is stripped of all its blocks,menu, etc

The blocks have been removed on 404 pages to improve the performance, but I agree it is annoying on a site which is not receiving lots of visitors and has no problems with that little bit of performance and a lot of usability lost. I have seen it before 5.7, there are plenty of people complaining about it on drupal.org if you search for blocks and 404. There is also a nice patch for d5 which does what seems the best solution to me: let the admin choose with a checkbox if blocks should be there or not on 404 pages: http://drupal.org/node/116895.

Hans

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