[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11348: Archive Page Should be 404.php When !have_posts()

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#11348: Archive Page Should be 404.php When !have_posts()
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 Reporter:  miqrogroove   |        Owner:  ryan    
     Type:  defect (bug)  |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal        |    Milestone:  2.9     
Component:  Query         |      Version:  2.8.4   
 Severity:  normal        |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:                |  
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Comment(by technosailor):

 filosofo is bang on. As the contributor of the patch in #5324, I'll weigh
 in.

 1) You seem to only want to fight. That's not really a great way to get
 things done.[[BR]]
 2) Server resources and web application resources are different[[BR]]
 3) A 404 is a server response code[[BR]]
 4) Apache/IIS can both find an empty category archive so it is not a
 404[[BR]]
 5) Apache/IIS cannot find a URL like /my-lovely-category-archive/iamempty/
 without help from a plugin so it would be a 404.[[BR]]
 6) Reiterating 4... WordPress can run a successful query against the
 database because it has all the resources necessary to do it with
 /category/iamempty/. It returns an empty dataset from MySQL but not an
 empty HTTP resource. It's not a 404.[[BR]]
 7) Reiterating 5... WordPres cannot create a successful dataset from MySQL
 because the variables passed via HTTP are not legitimate. Therefore the
 HTTP request is bad resource URI generating a legitimate 404.[[BR]]

 Why are we even debating this?

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