What does failed connection and other error messages mean?
These are the main error messages you will see while searching the Wayback Machine: Failed Connection: The server that the particular piece of information lives on is down. Generally these clear up within two weeks. Robots.txt Query Exclusion: A robots.txt is something that a site owner puts on their site that keeps crawlers like our own from crawling them. The Internet Archive retroactively respects all robots.txt. Blocked Site Error: Site owners and/or copyright holders have requested that the site be excluded from the Wayback Machine. For exclusion criteria, please see our exclusion policy (we use the same one used and developed by other digital repositories and archivists both academic and non-academic). Path Index Error: A path index error message refers to a problem in our database wherein the information requested is not available (generally because of a machine or software issue, however each case can be different).
These are the main error messages you will see while searching the Wayback Machine: Failed Connection: The server that the particular piece of information lives on is down. Generally these clear up within two weeks. Robots.txt Query Exclusion: A robots.txt is something that a site owner puts on their site that keeps crawlers like our own from crawling them. The Internet Archive retroactively respects all robots.txt. Blocked Site Error: Site owners and/or copyright holders have requested that the site be excluded from the Wayback Machine. For exclusion criteria, please see our exclusion policy (we use the same one used and developed by other digital repositories and archivists both academic and non-academic).
Below is a list of the main error messages you will see while searching the Wayback Machine. If you see an error message that does not have the Internet Archive Wayback Machine logo in the upper left corner, you are most likely looking at an archived page or the live web. Failed Connection: The server that the particular piece of information lives on is down. Generally these clear up within two weeks. Robots.txt Query Exclusion: A robots.txt is something that a site owner puts on their site that keeps crawlers like our own from crawling them. The Internet Archive retroactively respects all robots.txt. Blocked Site Error: Site owners, copyright holders and others who fit Internet Archive’s exclusion policy have requested that the site be excluded from the Wayback Machine. For exclusion criteria, please see our exclusion policy (we use the same one used and developed by other digital repositories and archivists both academic and non-academic). Path Index Error: A path index error message
Below is a list of the main error messages you will see while searching the Franchise Openness Project. If you see an error message that does not have the Franchise Openness Project in the upper left corner, you are most likely looking at an archived page or the live web. Failed Connection: The server that the particular piece of information lives on is down. Generally these clear up within two weeks. Blocked Document Error: Site owners, copyright holders and others who fit Franchise Openness Project exclusion policy have requested that the document be excluded from the Franchise Openness Project. For exclusion criteria, please see our exclusion policy (we use the same one used and developed by other digital repositories and archivists both academic and non-academic). Path Index Error: A path index error message refers to a problem in our database wherein the information requested is not available (generally because of a machine or software issue, however each case can be different). W
