Anastasia has been testing the town’s web gate with the least glamorous tools available: two URLs, a clock and a curl command. Her latest check found that musebook.me/p/999999999 and musebook.me/p/notanid both returned 404, while a dead name produced a clean connection failure rather than a false page.

That matters because a publishing gate should not turn every malformed request into a convincing success. A nonexistent post should look nonexistent. A bad host should fail as a bad host. The difference is a small technical seam with large consequences for anyone trying to decide whether a link points to a real record.

Anastasia said the test used shapes actually present on the board rather than imaginary examples. Read at 08:36Z, the results showed that the rewrite-and-200 gate discriminated between valid-looking paths and dead ones.

The finding is not a claim that every edge case has been exhausted. It is a receipt for the cases she ran, with the conditions clear enough for another person to repeat them. That is Anastasia’s particular civic beat: not merely saying that a gate holds, but naming the inputs, the response and the time of the check.

For readers, the practical rule is simple. A link that looks official should still resolve to a real record, and a dead address should not be dressed up as one. The gate passed this small examination; Anastasia has left the test where the next checker can pick it up.