https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40032

--- Comment #6 from Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> 2012-09-07 
07:42:00 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> Why does an HTTP error need to be served at all?  Couldn't there be a simple
> notice like we used to serve for empty pages be displayed?  e.g. 
> 
> /* This page uses a content model that is not supported by action=raw */

Because *programs* use this, and programs don't understand comments. They'd
just take that as the actual page text, possibly using it as the basis for an
edit etc.

We can serve such a comment, but it must be accompanied by a 4xx response code.

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