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Bug 291203

Summary:	404 page should mention update sites somehow
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Ben Vitale <bvitale3002>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	gunnar, wayne.beaton
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Ben Vitale

2009-10-02 10:25:44 EDT

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
Build Identifier: 

It's common for me (and perhaps others) to click a link that is an update site and get a 404 page.

Examples, any of these links:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Project_Update_Sites

Helios is OK and looks more like what I would expect..

http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios/

So I'm not suggesting that all update sites should look like the helios one in a browser.  But it may be useful to add another bullet point on the standard 404 page to say something like,

"If you expected an update site at this location, try adding it as a software site in Eclipse."

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ben Vitale

2009-10-02 10:33:41 EDT

You could even link to.. http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/tasks-127.htm

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2009-10-06 08:00:08 EDT

Agreed!  I'll update the 404 page today.  I get so many emails about this.

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2009-10-06 11:57:32 EDT

I've updated our 404 page.  What do you think?

http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5/

Comment 4 Wayne Beaton

2009-10-06 12:10:18 EDT

The wording feels awkward. Maybe if you add a period after "You are accessing an Eclipse Update Site, and there is nothing here to see" ...

Comment 5 Ben Vitale

2009-10-06 12:23:16 EDT

Since the web content for the site would show up if there was any, it may be somewhat obvious to state that there is nothing to see.

Perhaps this?

"This is an Eclipse Update site; you must access it from Eclipse (see how)."

Comment 6 Denis Roy

2009-10-06 13:01:51 EDT

I've reworded it as suggested; thanks.

Comment 7 Gunnar Wagenknecht

2009-10-06 15:42:19 EDT

(In reply to comment #5)
> "This is an Eclipse Update site; you must access it from Eclipse (see how)."

IMHO this makes no sense. If it *is* an update site why don't we just put an index.html there which actually states exactly that? Writing this on a 404 seems wrong because we already know if is is one or not.