Return 410 when GETing a previously deleted document (rather than 404)
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Key: COUCHDB-973
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-973
Project: CouchDB
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Benjamin Young
Priority: Trivial
When you GET a nonexistent doc you get (as you should) a 404 Not Found error.
However, if you GET a document that has previously existed you also get the 404
response. It would be more informative (IMO) for the 410 Gone response code to
be used. 410 Gone's intention is for exactly this use case, and it could have
some value to CouchDB developers who need to know the document did exist.
CouchDB is already half way there as in the body of the 404 response it does
state that the document did exist (at least prior to compaction), so outputing
a 410 (again, prior to compaction) would hopefully be a trivial patch.
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