But 404 is not the representation for not existing but for not found: if you return 404 you leave the user of the api wondering if he mistyped something, or the

But 404 is not the representation for not existing but for not found: if you return 404 you leave the user of the api wondering if he mistyped something, or the DNS broke, or some part of the routing went down. Maybe 204 would be a middle ground