Thomas,
Unfortunately, it wasn't obvious to me that a 404 was appropriate in
this situation. But, now that you mention it, I think you are right.
Thank you for your input.
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Randy Syring
RCS Computers & Web Solutions
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http://www.rcs-comp.com
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Thomas Broyer wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Randy Syring <ra...@rcs-comp.com> wrote:
I have a page that accepts URL arguments like:
/student/<id>
The id must be an integer or the URL doesn't match and the user is given a
404. But what should I do if the id is given, is an integer, but a student
with that id does not exist? I already output a message telling the user
that they requested an invalid student. However, should that document have
a 200 or 400 (or some other) status code?
Obviously a 404 too, as the URL identifies something that doesn't exist.
(in the case of an invalid id, i.e. not a number, you could use 410
status code too)
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