404 OK ?

From: wd <345@nospam.invalid>
Date: Sun Apr 30 2006 - 13:23:24 CEST

I am using the following bit of code at the very top of my pages to send a
404 Not Found error when people try to access any URL with a query string
in it.

<?php
$url_string = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

if (strstr($url_string, '?')) {
  header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
  echo <<<HTML
    <html>
    <head>
      <title>404 Not Found</title>
    </head>
    <body>
      <h1>Not Found</h1>
      The requested URL was not found on this server.
    </body>
    </html>
HTML;
    exit;
}
?>

These are the headers that get sent back to the browser -- look at the
first line:

HTTP/1.x 404 OK
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:13:37 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.2
Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=200
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

But for the missing favicon (which really does not exist) I get a regular
404 error message:

HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found

What is a "404 OK" header and why isn't it sending the "Not Found" header?
I am trying to get it to send a regular 404 Not Found header.
Received on Mon May 1 03:07:46 2006

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404 OK ?