404 to Archive Redirecter

[DanzHD]

A greasemonkey/tampermonkey script to, when detecting a page that says "404" or "Not Found" on it, automatically redirect to that page in the Internet Archive.

Can be installed here https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/484103-404pagerevival

[DanzHD]

@Divide-By-0 sorry, were there any issues that you wanted me to fix?

[Divide-By-0]

@Divide-By-0 sorry, were there any issues that you wanted me to fix?

Hey sorry I haven't been as responsive. Just installed, will try out for a week. One quick nit is that the serif font is sort of ugly, and it should automatically check archive.org instead of asking me to click the button first.

Also, https://login.live.com/login.srf seems to trigger this extension even though it's not a 404.

[DanzHD]

@Divide-By-0 sorry, were there any issues that you wanted me to fix?

Hey sorry I haven't been as responsive. Just installed, will try out for a week. One quick nit is that the serif font is sort of ugly, and it should automatically check archive.org instead of asking me to click the button first.

Also, https://login.live.com/login.srf seems to trigger this extension even though it's not a 404.

I can definitely change the font style and make it check archive.org on initial load but I don't think I can do anything else to prevent false positives due to the fact that I'm using the page's response status code to detect a 404 page which can be incorrect.

[Divide-By-0]

@Divide-By-0 sorry, were there any issues that you wanted me to fix?

Hey sorry I haven't been as responsive. Just installed, will try out for a week. One quick nit is that the serif font is sort of ugly, and it should automatically check archive.org instead of asking me to click the button first.
Also, https://login.live.com/login.srf seems to trigger this extension even though it's not a 404.

I can definitely change the font style and make it check archive.org on initial load but I don't think I can do anything else to prevent false positives due to the fact that I'm using the page's response status code to detect a 404 page which can be incorrect.

From what I understand of that link, it gives a 404 then redirects automatically to a non-404, but your script doesn't seem to pick up the redirect.

[DanzHD]

@Divide-By-0 sorry, were there any issues that you wanted me to fix?

Hey sorry I haven't been as responsive. Just installed, will try out for a week. One quick nit is that the serif font is sort of ugly, and it should automatically check archive.org instead of asking me to click the button first.
Also, https://login.live.com/login.srf seems to trigger this extension even though it's not a 404.

I can definitely change the font style and make it check archive.org on initial load but I don't think I can do anything else to prevent false positives due to the fact that I'm using the page's response status code to detect a 404 page which can be incorrect.

From what I understand of that link, it gives a 404 then redirects automatically to a non-404, but your script doesn't seem to pick up the redirect.

Yep, you're right. I've uploaded a new update that should fix the issues and changes the font to Arial.

[Divide-By-0]

CNAME redirects still fail with your tool i.e. https://tool.zkregex.com/ or https://zkregex.com/tool.

[Divide-By-0]

Not sure Arial fits well with Chrome, can you try Segoe UI? Also can you make the button less tall?

[DanzHD]

CNAME redirects still fail with your tool i.e. https://tool.zkregex.com/ or https://zkregex.com/tool.

Thanks for letting me know.

It seems that the final page from the redirect always sends back a 404 status code as the response. I checked with a redirect tool and it also gets a 404 status code back from the final page. Do you have any suggestions for potential fixes?

Not sure Arial fits well with Chrome, can you try Segoe UI? Also can you make the button less tall?

Yep, I can do that.

[Divide-By-0]

CNAME redirects still fail with your tool i.e. https://tool.zkregex.com/ or https://zkregex.com/tool.

Thanks for letting me know.

It seems that the final page from the redirect always sends back a 404 status code as the response. I checked with a redirect tool and it also gets a 404 status code back from the final page. Do you have any suggestions for potential fixes?

Not sure Arial fits well with Chrome, can you try Segoe UI? Also can you make the button less tall?

Yep, I can do that.

These don't 404 for me, can you figure out how to differentiate incorrect 404s from real 404s? It's a 404 on https but not on http I believe.