Custom 404 control

[eluser]louis w[/eluser]
Why would you have to use curl inside of the built in 404 page?

Another possible solution would be my proposed addition of a _default built in method. At the core level, it's functionality is the same as what you outlined above but it would be a native feature and would not require using _remap to catch everything. For non existant controllers, it would/should call the default controller's _default method.