soft 404

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Noun

1. 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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