LiveSite returning status of 590

Bowker

Has anyone ever seen a status code of 590 being returned by LiveSiteDisplayServices?

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nipper

Never heard of that. Can you provide more details ? Is it from Tomcat ? How it it being returned ?

Rick Poulin

Do you mean 490? That's LiveSite's custom status code for "site not found". It is valid per the http spec, which only has something to say about the 4xx block but doesn't say you can't create your own -- thus any (fairly modern) http client should treat this as a client-side request error, including search engines.

While it's 100% valid, it does make people uncomfortable because it doesn't follow conventions. The easy "fix" is to edit /iw/errors/InvalidSite.jsp and add this near the top:
<% response.setStatus(404); %>