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Go: Building Web Applications
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Go: Building Web Applications

by Nathan Kozyra, Mat Ryer
August 2016
Beginner to intermediate
665 pages
14h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Handling 404s

A very obvious problem with our preceding code is that it does not handle a scenario wherein an invalid ID (or GUID) is requested.

As it is, a request to, say, /page/999 will just result in a blank page for the user and in the background a Couldn't get page! message, as shown in the following screenshot:

Handling 404s

Resolving this is pretty simple by passing proper errors. Now, in the previous chapter we explored custom 404 pages and you can certainly implement one of those here, but the easiest way is to just return an HTTP status code when a post cannot be found and allow the browser to handle the presentation.

In our preceding code, we have an ...

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