Invalid URLs return HTTP 200 and does not indicate error

[leizleiz]

1. Download https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/foobar

Expected: Server returns HTTP 404 (Not found) and returns a templated page indicating error.
Actual: Server returns HTTP 200 (OK) and returns a templated page with no content in the middle.

[rgolan]

https://www.drupal.org/node/1091068

[irabinovitch]

@rgolan I could be misreading that ticket, but I think that refers to the /node/1/foo style urls rather than the aliases we generally use. Are we using pathauto to generate our url aliases, or something different?

[rgolan]

We are using pathauto. The reason Drupal doesn't return a 404 is because Drupal uses extra path elements as parameters. The page can either use them or ignore them. I don't understand why we care about this. They shouldn't be getting indexed by search engines.