This particular thing is a matter of opinion, there are pro's and con's to each approach. The question is what constitutes an error and should web semantics an

This particular thing is a matter of opinion, there are pro's and con's to each approach. The question is what constitutes an error and should web semantics and application semantics align? should I return a 404 on a missing record, and if I do, how can I differentiate between that and a routing error? My point is that you're confidently stating something where both sides are neither right nor wrong, they simply value different things.