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Usually, creating "410 Gone"[0] response for the URL and running the URL through the URL Inspection Tool [1] can help make things a bit faster. But yeah, it doe

Usually, creating "410 Gone"[0] response for the URL and running the URL through the URL Inspection Tool [1] can help make things a bit faster. But yeah, it does take a while to get these 404s removed. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/410 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/410 [1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6065812?hl=en https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6065812?hl=en

inlined 7y ago
That distinction exists in many systems. E.g. for cloud events, 404 is considered with skepticism because it could be a race condition in provisioning or transient issue whereas 410 requires data streams to be cut off.
- C1sc0cat 7y ago
  Then you should serve 503
  - inlined 7y ago
    5xx means that the server made a mistake. 4xx means that the caller made a mistake. Sending a request to a GONE url is canonically classified as a “user” or sender error.