If there were an error catching, request processing, "redirect" script in the root of the web server, then all requests could be edited for their "correctness".
What if there were a web publishing system that wouldn't let you delete pages. One could "remove" pages, but not without giving a reason for it's removal (to be displayed to the user) and (if appropriate) a place for the user to go instead.
It would also be ideal for the system to keep a log of changes, so that the site owner (or possibly even users) could link to a page from the past.
We've created machines that can "remember" things for us, even protect us from ourselves, but we let our own short comings cascade into their existence as well as hamper ours.
Posted by TheIdeaMan at March 18, 2003 02:46 PM