On the topic of .NET's abysmal failure, it always killed me that ASP.NET's (Web Forms', at least) default custom 404 behavior was to return a 302 Found status code then redirect to a 404 Not Found page. For example: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/thisdoesntexist.aspx
Drives me nuts, too. Plus .NET overrides default server settings, which I've never understood. Why make things even more complicated? Oh, wait. it's Microsoft...
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On the topic of .NET's abysmal failure, it always killed me that ASP.NET's (Web Forms', at least) default custom 404 behavior was to return a 302 Found status code then redirect to a 404 Not Found page. For example: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/thisdoesntexist.aspx
Drives me nuts, too. Plus .NET overrides default server settings, which I've never understood. Why make things even more complicated? Oh, wait. it's Microsoft...