[Web-SIG] Use 200 or 400 Status Code When...

[Thomas Broyer]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Randy Syring <randy at 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)

-- 
Thomas Broyer