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by ryanlol 1990 days ago
This is not a helpful message in the vast majority of cases. Lots of servers out there that always return 200
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> Lots of servers out there that always return 200

That's poor configuration for most public websites that you want indexed by search bots that's worth fixing. It's called a soft 404, and makes it troublesome to detect when links are invalid, break or have moved. Google will even warn you about it: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...

The vast majority of servers on port 80 are not public websites that you want indexed by search bots.