IIS log and Server.Transfer

[Chris]

I am thinking of creating a custom 404 page which does a server.transfer to
a variety of different pages. My question is what shows up in the log, which
the web statistics are based on?
1. The non existent page, which is requested?
2. The custom 404 page?
3. The page it gets transfered to?

 

[George Ter-Saakov]

1. Non existent page will show up in the IIS logs (See bellow, there might
be a problem with HTTP Error code).

2. The error code will be 200 (which means OK) and not 404 unless you
specifically set it with Response.StatusCode = 404, so your WebStatistic
package will not show that page as missing. Unless you set it to 404.

3. You might be able to set the StatusCode to 404 in custom 404 page and do
the Server.Transfer hopping that the page you transfer to will not reset it.
You will have to test that as I do not know.



George