last updated August 31, 2003
Researchers may encounter error messages when they type in an address or click on a hyperlink from another page. The address or hyperlink is trying to direct the researcher to either to a main page of a website (http://www.hrw.org), or to a selected page within that site (http://www.hrw.org/women/index.php). The error message may indicate a problem with the domain, the page or the link, and depending on the cause, it may still be possible to find the requested information. The error message might be generated in four different situations.
(1) The domain (the website itself) may no longer be available. If the domain no longer exists, it will not be possible to find any information.
(2) The owner of the page might be having problems or have taken the server offline. In this case, the page is only temporarily unavailable, and the link may work at a later time.
(3) The domain may be available, but the page might no longer exist or may have moved to a different part of the site. If this is the case, it might be useful to edit the link address. Thus, if "http://www.hrw.org/women/index.php" generates an error message, it might be possible to go to the main page of the organization by typing the domain address "http://www.hrw.org" and looking for the publication.
(4) The page may exist, but the link selected to get to that page may have an incorrect address (i.e., the page is incorrectly linked). In such cases, researchers may need to go to the domain address "http://www.hrw.org" to look for the requested document. | 
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