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markfernando · 02-08-2017, 05:13 AM

Soft 404 error is returned when the browser requests a resource from the web server and the server returns 200 OK response for a file that does not exist on the server. Hence, in both the cases, file is not present on the server but in case of soft 404 the server returns 200 OK response code by mistake.

02-08-2017, 05:13 AM	#4
markfernando Registered User Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: USA Posts: 26	Soft 404 error is returned when the browser requests a resource from the web server and the server returns 200 OK response for a file that does not exist on the server. Hence, in both the cases, file is not present on the server but in case of soft 404 the server returns 200 OK response code by mistake.