Closed Bug 195164 Opened 23 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Use Google's cache to retrieve Slashdotted sites

Categories

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: ken, Assigned: dougt)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug,
URL
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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 If a site is down, Mozilla could pretty easily grab the google cache instead. Or, if there's no google cache or if the cache matches the current page, check archive.org. Mozilla could auto-generate a page offering the user some options. Think about it - it would be the end of 404 errors. Instead of 404 The requested page could not be found. you could get The site you requested is currently down. Would you like to use Google's cache [216.239.51.100] instead? I also have a snapshot of the page you requested from August 12, 2002 [archive.org] but older ones are available here [archive.org]. (Lifted from a discussion at Slashdot, http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=55236&cid=5391452 .) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Um.... there is no reasonable way to "edit" the server-generated 404 page. I suppose we could create a separate frame for the extra verbiage or something.... That said, I see no reasonable way to link to the google cache. Linking to archive.org may be feasible if they have an RSS feed or something like that for the information.... Parsing their search results page to get information out is not a feasible approach.
i'm not sure what you mean by no reasonable way to link to google's cache http://google.com/search?q=cache:www.mozilla.org/ eventually this is xpapps/embedding or something, but perhaps some thoughts from networking...
Assignee: asa → dougt
Component: Browser-General → Networking
QA Contact: asa → benc
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109574 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Not a dup of bug 109574. That bug is about rewriting all links. This bug is about recovering from network errors and 404s.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Blocks: 479922
addon if anything. not a core feature.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago → 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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