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HTTP status codes

4th March 2003

Craig Saila has a minor rant about HTTP error codes. Did you know that a 410 should be served instead of a 404 when a resource has been deliberately, permanently removed? I didn’t.

Posted 4th March 2003 at 11:52 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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