Post #2273318

2026-04-29 21:00 UTC

@mro@digitalcourage.social but 404 file not found is a server message. If I visit your site and something you did is broken and results in me seeing a 404 that's not me as the clients fault

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@julian@fietkau.social 2026-04-29 21:06

@liaizon@social.wake.st @mro@digitalcourage.social Something something “HTTP is stateless” 🤪 404 means you requested a document that doesn't exist, meaning that the error is not related to server connection capacity or anything like that which may solve itself by waiting. If you want to see something, you need to change your approach. That's what 4xx says. You may have been directed to a 404 from a link on a different page on the server, but that's unrelated to the HTTP error. It doesn't take into account where you came from.

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@mro@digitalcourage.social 2026-04-30 07:18

Hi @liaizon@social.wake.st, they are all messages from the server. 404 is the the answer to your request for a document that does not exist. The webserver denies responsibility for that. You ask for something that isn't there. But mind: many severs lie in their responses.

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