Server should return a 410 HTTP status code for deleted pages
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	• bzimport
	Dec 18 2007, 7:31 PM

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Author: psychonaut

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As per RFC 2616, MediaWiki should return a 410 HTTP status code (410 Gone) for pages which have been deleted. This will assist search engines, link checkers, and other automated tools in removing links to wiki pages which no longer exist. Note that MediaWiki can still display whatever web page it normally does when the user accesses a deleted page; it's just the HTTP status code which should be altered (from 200 OK to 410 Gone).

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Reference: bz12345

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Mentioned In: T61733: Deleted pages should be served as HTTP 404 instead of HTTP 200
T75750: Main Phabricator search (in the top nav search bar) should search Bugzilla references (bz12345)

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 9:57 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-General.

• bzimport set Reference to bz12345.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Dec 18 2007, 7:31 PM

410 is when you are sure the given page will no longer be served.
With lighttpd, the server does not even send the page content on a 410 error code.

Marking as wont fix :)

The patch for Article::getContent() if you ever want to try:

Index: includes/Article.php

includes/Article.php (revision 28716)

+++ includes/Article.php (working copy)
@@ -159,6 +159,12 @@

wfProfileOut( __METHOD__ );
$wgOut->setRobotpolicy( 'noindex,nofollow' );

+ if( $this->getTitle()->isDeleted() ) {
+ $wgOut->setStatusCode( 410 );
+ } else {
+ $wgOut->setStatusCode( 404 );
+ }
+

			if ( $this->mTitle->getNamespace() == NS_MEDIAWIKI ) {
				$ret = wfMsgWeirdKey ( $this->mTitle->getText() ) ;
			} else {

Qgil mentioned this in T75750: Main Phabricator search (in the top nav search bar) should search Bugzilla references (bz12345).Nov 26 2014, 7:48 AM

Scott mentioned this in T61733: Deleted pages should be served as HTTP 404 instead of HTTP 200.Dec 24 2017, 3:36 PM

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