soft 404s

A form of soft 404 — A 404 page (the result of trying to follow a broken link within a website) which reports a 200 OK HTTP response code rather than 404 Not Found, falsely indicating to the browser that the page exists and was loaded correctly.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of soft 404
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