PDFs appearing in my Embedded Styles sheet policy
Hi Guys,
For NHS Tayside, in brand compliance under the policy for Using Embedding Style sheets, it seems to have brought up PDF exceptions.
Please see this link - http://webworxx.vamosa.com/explorer/90?filter=policy&filter_val...
Cheers,
Faz
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2 Posted by Ross Macdonald on 18 Aug, 2010 09:11 AM
Hi,
This is not showing PDFs, these are HTML pages as they are a status code 404, which is returned when a page/URL is not found.
The table shows the status codes as a question mark, which is a 404. The content type icon for these URLs also indicates it is a text/html page.
This will generally be the case when any asset (non HTML page) is not found, the web server will return a 404 page not found HTL page.
Ross
Support Staff 3 Posted by moayyed.darugar on 18 Aug, 2010 09:22 AM
Hi Ross,
That brings back to my comments on previous discussions on why we are reporting on 404 status pages as we are inflating the number of exceptions in all other policy categories.
The argument can be that the 404 pages needs to be accessible as well, but the thing is there will be always one 404 page and not many 404 pages either it is custom or the standard page. With us checking and reporting the same exception issues for all the broken links just increases the number of exceptions for every policy. Meaning that if there are 114 broken links they will be multiplied by every active policy on the site.
I personally do not think that we should check exceptions on 404 page. The exceptions should only be checked for 200 status code pages.
Moayyed
4 Posted by stewartmckee on 18 Aug, 2010 10:02 AM
404's are valid pages on the site to check, some sites return different content on 404 pages, eg 'we couldn't find the page you were looking for, maybe these are similar pages would be what you were looking for'. They are rendered on the browser the same as 200 pages and therefore still have the same issues that any other page will have.
Stewart.
5 Posted by Patric DelCioppo on 18 Aug, 2010 11:43 AM
I would have to agree w/ Moayyed on this. Performing checks for things like missing metadata on 404 and redirect pages is completely irrelevant, as these are by nature content-less pages (the case Stew mentioned is the exception rather than the rule).
Checking these pages against all policies artificially inflates the number of exceptions, since a single broken link results in dozens of exceptions. Regardless of the theoretical argument, customers are not going to want to see these exceptions, since they get in the way of the real problems they want to solve.
Thanks!
Ross Macdonald closed this discussion on 18 Aug, 2010 08:21 PM.