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Faking a 404, 500 and

I am creating a simulation game (web service), and need to fake those error pages. As far as I know, and can see, there isn't a way to fake a 404, or 500 etc. Is this right? Are we able to do this programmatically?

I know I could just make a 404 page and redirect to it... But I'm trying to make it a little more realistic.

Solution

  • Returning a 404 or 500 status code to the browser (see your programming language's/framework's documentation for how) will send a real one instead of a fake one.