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[karohemd]

Why error 404?

ETA: Read the linked page, people! (there might be a delay) I'm not asking for it, I'm showing the solution...

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[damianobf.livejournal.com]

assuming you want to know why 404 and not some other number. It is the code assigned to a not found message in http code. It could as easily be something else. 4xx codes are error messages and it happens to be the 4th one defined (hence 404).

A list of the responses is here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

and this is a page with links to some customised 404 messages

http://www.sendcoffee.com/minorsage/404error.html