I think you should always report a 404 as a 404 regardless of the situation.
The application shouldn't have to know if it is a valid 404 or an "invalid" - because from the applications point of view, the page (or item) couldn't be found. Just my 2 cents. Regards, Andréas 2017-03-01 10:25 GMT+01:00 guettli <[email protected]>: > In systems which are accessed only via intranet we used to monitor http > 404 responses. > > Every time a 404 happens, an issue in our monitoring gets created. > > This worked well in the past. > > Now we have cases where a 404 is valid or should be ignored. No issue in > the monitoring should be visible. > > You could apply "separation of concerns" and keep on reporting all 404 > responses > and do the filtering in the monitoring area. > > But on the other hand the code knows more. I have places where I know that > this 404 should be ignored. > > I am biased where the problem should get solved: > > - inside django app > - inside monitoring > > > What do you think? > > Does anybody make a differenence between "good 404 vs bad 404"? > > Regards, > Thomas > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/django-users/fb152b91-ee44-42aa-8304-fb43eba43be1%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/fb152b91-ee44-42aa-8304-fb43eba43be1%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CALXYUbkcs%2BEqkNPLNhctqtEzB7Zd3oPKVoJUMNi8yzcXgON7bQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
