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This is exactly my point, 404 is for handling errors, someone not being in a hospital-register is not an error. To check if someone is, and he isn't, that is not necessarily an error. It may even be a good thing, that someone never has been ill in a specific hospital. The only thing that a computer, without value judgment can say, is that the call iss successful (HTTP-status 200), and the answer is "No, he is not in the register". That is information. To call an non-existing service, that is an error, and should return 404. That is what Restlet also has implemented. Bert