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How can I Handler 404 errors without the framework throwing an Exception 500 error code?

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http://jason.whitehorn.ws/2008/06/17/Friendly-404-Errors-In-ASPNET-MVC.aspx gives the following explanation:

Add a wildcard routing rule as your final rule:

routes.MapRoute("Error", 
                "{*url}", 
                new { controller = "Error", action = "Http404" });

Any request that doesn't match another rule gets routed to the Http404 action of the Error controller, which you also need to configure:

public ActionResult Http404(string url) {
    Response.StatusCode = 404;
    ViewData["url"] = url;
    return View();
}
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Just an FYI, The above linked post is returning a 404 (oh the irony). The new address is: jason.whitehorn.ws/2008/06/17/… – Jason Whitehorn Nov 25 '08 at 4:21
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The only problem here is that so much matches the typical /{controller}/{action}/{id} route. To get around the problem, I explicitly defined all my routes and got rid of it. – BC. Mar 15 '09 at 1:31
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Unfortunatelly the link doesn't work. Even jason.whitehorn.ws is not accessible :| – stej Aug 12 '09 at 6:35
This is fine for situations where routes don't match, but doesn't help when an id is not valid for example... – UpTheCreek Feb 4 '11 at 16:11
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the link is a 404, irony! – Tyler Feb 29 '12 at 16:11
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You can also override HandleUnknownAction within your controller in the cases where a request does match a controller, but doesn't match an action. The default implementation does raise a 404 error.

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Good idea. Check out this solution which incorporates a HandleUnknownAction override: stackoverflow.com/questions/619895/… – cottsak Apr 5 '10 at 5:57
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throw new HttpException(404, "Resource Not Found");

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With MVC 3 you can return HttpNotFound() to properly return a 404.

Like this:

public ActionResult Download(string fontName)
{
    FontCache.InitalizeFonts();

    fontName = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(fontName);

    var font = FontCache.GetFontByName(fontName);
    if (font == null)
        return HttpNotFound();

    return View(font);
}
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