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Arpit Gupta commented on HDFS-2429:
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If we can determine that delete did not succeed, we should rather throw a 404
back to the user with the appropriate error message
> webhdfs delete a path that does not exists returns a 200, we should return a
> 404
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> Key: HDFS-2429
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2429
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.20.205.0
> Reporter: Arpit Gupta
> Priority: Minor
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> Request URI http://NN:50070/webhdfs/some_path_that_does_not_exists?op=DELETE
> Request Method: DELETE
> Status Line: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Request Content: {"boolean":false}
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