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emiliobumachar on April 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to become Internet famous for $68

Please share those reasons. The only one I can think of is false positives of temporarily down servers, which could be mitigated by timed retries.

Wingman4l7 on April 18, 2013 [–]

That is the main reason. Another would be some sort of "Content not here anymore" message that doesn't conform to HTTP status code standards, giving a false negative.

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