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soft 404s

soft 404s is the plural of soft 404.

Meaning of soft 404

Noun

soft 404 (plural soft 404s)

  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.
    • To ensure that the server would return a soft 404, the random sequence of characters was appended to an absolute URL and file path. […] Given that our research deals with identifying and predicting soft 404s, we chose to use a ratio of 50% normal pages and 50% soft 404s.2012, Luis Meneses, Richard Furuta, Frank Shipman, “Identifying “Soft 404” Error Pages: Analyzing the Lexical Signatures of Documents in Distributed Collections”, in Panayiotis Zaphiris, George...

Questions about soft 404s

What is soft 404s the plural of?
Soft 404s is the plural of soft 404.

Words near soft 404s in the dictionary

  1. sofrittos
  2. Sofronio Española
  3. SOFs
  4. soft
  5. soft 404
  6. soft 404s
  7. soft a
  8. soft a's
  9. soft as a baby's bottom
  10. soft as silk
  11. soft atheism

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