Return JSON for 404 error instead of html

[Justin Dorfman]

Out of curiosity, would the mime/content type show up as application/json
or text/plain?


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On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Valentin V. Bartenev <vbart at nginx.com>wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 May 2014 15:30:56 B.R. wrote:
> > > Instead of using 3rd-party echo module, you can utilize the return
> > > directive
> > >
> > > for the same purpose:
> > >   return 200 '{"status": "Not Found"}';
> > >
> > > Reference: http://nginx.org/r/return
> > >
> > >   wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev
> >
> > ​I would have intuitively written code 404 rather than 200 on this one
> > since the aim is to send a 404 error answer.​
> > Am I wrong? Would that loop?
> >
>
> I wrote an equivalent of "echo".  The logic is that in this handler we
> provide
> the page for 404 which actually exists.
>
>    wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev
>
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