[opencms-dev] 404 not returning 404

[Andras Balogh]

Hello Joe,

    OpenCMS registers itself as 404 handler, this is important for the 
feature "export on demand".
Why do you want to return 404? Usually you could make a page with a text 
like:
"Page not found blabla ..."

Best regards,
Andras.

Joe Desbonnet wrote:

>How do I get the 404 error handler to return a HTTP status code of
>404? Right now it seems to return 200.
>
>I tried 
>response.setStatus(404) 
>in /system/handler/handle404.html JSP script, but that does not appear to work.
>
>I know this has been discussed before, but I cannot find the
>resolution of the problem. Ironically, Googling for "Opencms 404"
>yields mostly 404 error pages on OpenCms sites which Google mistakes
>for content due to the 200 response code.
>
>Joe.
>
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