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That, and "Coming soon" shouldn't be remembered either. So why not have a e.g. 205 Temporary Placeholder or something along those lines?
by mojuba 3y ago
That, and "Coming soon" shouldn't be remembered either. So why not have a e.g.
205 Temporary Placeholder
or something along those lines?
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoIronically, I sought to make a reference to the GeoCities "Under Construction" animated GIFs, and upon visiting knowyourmeme.com, they served me a 500 error on their landing page. Justice!
- randomdata 3y agoIs that ultimately not the same as 404 – The resource you requested was not found, so here is a temporary placeholder?
- panzi 3y agoBrowsers, proxies and crawlers might remember 404 longer than any status code that has "temporary" in it. See also the various permanent and temporary redirect status codes.
- eli 3y ago404 is the temporary code. 410 is permanent.
- pixl97 3y agoHave you ever seen a 410 actually used IRL? This has to be one of those that's pretty high up in the code rarity list.
- torgard 3y agoI've used it for resources that have been permanently deleted, rather than the 404 that you'll usually see. I think it makes sense for that sort of stuff. From a user perspective, getting a 404 after following a link that previously worked can indicate a couple of things. Like maybe the resource still exists in some other place, but they didn't set up redirects. Maybe it's been "privated" in some way, and I no longer have access to it. A 410 makes it explicitly clear to me, that the resource has been permanently deleted. It'd also be nice if the response included some metadata as to when the resource was deleted.