English Explanatory Dictionary

soft 404

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A 404 page (the result of trying to follow a broken link within a website) which reports a 200 OK HTTP response code rather than 404 Not Found, falsely indicating to the browser that the page exists and was loaded correctly.

Word forms

soft 404 soft 404s

Etymology

Introduced in 2004 by Ziv Bar-Yossef et al.

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