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Benoit Chesneau commented on COUCHDB-973:
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I woould say that we don't have to guess what a developer could do with or not.
We are always surprised. The real question is : is 410 the appropriate
response. If yes, then we should go for it. Reading the spec, it seems we
should indeed send a 410.
Also a side note, we aren't a web server but a database using HTTP as a media.
Focusing on that make think that 410 may be OK too.
> 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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