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Asked: 2026-05-16T15:36:20+00:00

The script will be called from a URL like example.com/photo.php?id=123 or example.com/photos/123 depending on

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The script will be called from a URL like example.com/photo.php?id=123 or example.com/photos/123 depending on if the have the pretty URLs featured enabled.

If photo #123 does not exist, a request to example.com/photos/123 should throw a 404 error. But, what about example.com/photo.php?id=123?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The relevant RFC is 2616, specifically the sections on status codes, requests, and URIs. Specifically, the query string is considered part of the URI, so a 404 is the proper response since it means:

    The server has not found anything
    matching the Request-URI.

    If you can know that a photo has been permanently deleted, you may return 410.

    I would not return 200 and say “no results found.”

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