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Make a ZIM file from any Web site and surf offline!
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Improve out-of-scope error messages #242

Closed Popolechien closed 5 months ago

Popolechien commented 1 year ago

Currently when zimit runs on a website and a link, for some (or any reason) is out of scope for the run, users subsequently trying to click on that link will end up seeing a rather absconse Sorry, the url https://www.foobar.url is not found on this server error message Capture d’écran 2023-11-13 à 15 19 41

This is not really helpful to the user as it does not explain whether this is a bug or a feature.

A clearer message, indicating something along the lines of "This pages was not archived as its content was outside of the range of pages crawled. Sorry!" might be somewhat more helpful / less frustrating.

We do have friendly illustrations at hand that we could also use:

Error 404 or Dead-Kiwix

benoit74 commented 5 months ago

This error message does not exists anymore with Zimit2