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Funky caching

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Generation and display of provisional and dynamic content when a solicited resource is not available or has been moved. It is also known as ErrorDocument trick, Smarter Caching and Rasmus' Trick in honor to Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of the PHP programming language), allegedly the first one in explaining this mechanism in which the HTTP Error404 Error Document is replaced for a script capable of generating dynamic content.