[Yanel-dev] Deactivated or not published yet pages

[Guillaume Déflache]

Michael Wechner schrieb:
> We recently had the following usecase:
> 
> - Person A creates a page with a workflow associated with, but does not 
> publish it, hence it should not be visible to the outside
>  ( but Person A can see it, because A is logged in to Yanel)
> - Person A copies this link and sends it to Person B for review
> - Person B then receives this link by email, clicks on it and gets a 404 
> (because Person is not logged in)
> and hence will be very confused
> 
> A similar case can happen when Person A is deactivating (un-publishing) 
> a page and Person B still has a bookmark to it.
> 
> A 404 might make sense it certain cases, but I believe strongly, that it 
> could also say something like
> 
> "This page does exist, but is not published currently"
> 
> WDYT?


As long as you still cannot publish content which link to such a page, I
guess it's OK, else there might be information leakage as for example a
very early publication of
http://example.com/50_percent_discount_on_all_products/ page which sole
URL would already say too much! ;)
Also beware of not indexing anything including the URL for search as well!