A RuntimeError occured: Unknown format 'blah'

[floehopper]

This causes a 500 HTTP status code to be returned. I wonder whether it ought to be a 406? And in the case where no file exists for any format, perhaps it should be a 404 i.e. the particular case I'm looking at is a request for /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png, but no file or snip apple-touch-icon-precomposed exists, so shouldn't this be a 404?

[tomafro]

I think you are right. It should be 404 if no such resource exists. 406
if the resource exists but not in the requested format. For our website I
think it would be OK to respond with 404 rather than 406 in these cases.

On 11 September 2012 08:46, James Mead notifications@github.com wrote:

This causes a 500 HTTP status code to be returned. I wonder whether it
ought to be a 406? And in the case where no file exists for any format,
perhaps it should be a 404 i.e. the particular case I'm looking at is a
request for /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png, but no file or snip
apple-touch-icon-precomposed exists, so shouldn't this be a 404?

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[floehopper]

I think I've fixed the 404 case in 0c9c8c6. The 406 seems less important right now, so I'm going to leave it.

[floehopper]

@chrisroos: Do you think this is fixed?

[chrisroos]

I can see that requests for /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png (curl --head http://gofreerange.com/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png) return a 404 so that looks good to me.

Are there other requests that still cause the same problem, though?

[floehopper]

There's not really enough info in this (very old) issue to respond to @chrisroos' question, so I'm going to close it in the hope that the new Rails version of the app doesn't suffer from this problem.