HTTP/1.1 200 OK problem!

[Anon]

hi all,

my hosting environment is apache with
php 4.0.4pl1 cgi...

i redirect 404s to a script via
.htaccess ErrorDocument 404 /foo.php
works fine but to avoid a 404 http header i tried header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK"); as first line in foo.php - but it gives me a 500:
internal server error!?

any ideas how to avoid the 404 http header of foo.php?

thx in advance

.nu

[[deleted]]

The very point of putting in a 404 is to let the client know he's reached a non-existing page.
Replacing that with a 200 OK is naughty bad bad go stand in a corner for a week bad bad naughty bad.

Don't take out the 404.

[Anon]

i have to do it in order to achive
something like domain.com/foo/bar instead of
domain.com?foo=bar and i have to do it the 404 way because of cgi php...BUT some spiders ignore pages with a 404 header ;-(

[[deleted]]

And indeed they should ignore pages with 404.

did you read this?:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim19990117.php3

[Anon]

yes of course...

but the 404 header renders everything useless
as my domain.com/foo/bar pages will never get indexed ... ;-(

.nu