Timeline for When to use HTTP status code 404 in an API
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| Sep 14, 2016 at 11:00 | comment | added | Lemonade | I like the possibility to distinguish between URL NOT FOUND and Resource NOT FOUND ... So the Service Endpoint is up and running 200, however the requested resource is NOT FOUND 404 (Response Body). | |
| Jul 11, 2013 at 5:15 | comment | added | user69037 | All 404 really says is "that thing isn't here, and I don't know where it is". 3xx and 5xx are ok for retrying. But 4xx says, "your current query was insufficient for me to find antyhing for you. Please go away." | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 10:20 | history | answered | user90766 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |