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Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-973:
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I almost went to say +1 but after reading the description of 410 again, I
noticed this blurb:
> If the server does not know, or has no facility to determine, whether
> or not the condition is permanent, the status code 404 (Not Found)
> SHOULD be used instead."
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.11
I don't think its super clear cut for either one. As mentioned the
{"not_found": "deleted"} can be used to check the same condition so its not
that we're missing any capability other than which layer we may want to deal
with this particular case.
If I were to make a snap decision I think I would vote in favor of keeping 404
but I'm not adverse to hearing arguments in favor of 410.
> 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
> Attachments: 410.patch
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> 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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