Re: Need to rethink verification process

It is not the verification file that google has an issue with... What
the error message is telling you is that when your 404 error page is
being served up, it is giving a 200 response, page exists. Googlebot
cannot tell that the page it asked for is missing because your custom
404 page does not respond appropriately. Google tests for this
situation so it does not crawl/cache your 404 error page and serve it
up in results just because you removed a file.

A call to http://mosaicpm.co.uk/random_page.html gets this as your
response header.

Response Headers - http://mosaicpm.co.uk/custom-error.html?code=404

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:43:59 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29 PHP/4.3.10
FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7g
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=998
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

200 OK