Return 204 without using bundled request
Is there any way to make a specific path return a 204 without using up bundled requests?
this is my current solution as a function:
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i use that on /favicon.ico
I believe using a Function as you have there is the only real way to do that today
You can alter headers with
_headers
without a Function, but not the response status code
Out of interest, what's your use-case to need to do this and explicitly return an empty response with a 204
for the favicon?i don't have a favicon, and it's not an error that i don't have a favicon
so why return a 404
Because 404 is Not Found, and you don't have a favicon, so it's not found
404 isn't necessarily a bad thing
right, and i think that makes sense for every single request that i'm not actually expecting
but i know for a fact that a browser is going to request a favicon
and i know i don't have one
so might as well tell the browser that instead of "dunno"
i would have thought the most spec-compliant way to tell the browser you dont have a favicon.ico file is to return 404
it seems the closest you can get is creating an empty file named favicon.ico in your output, which will return 200 with no content, sadly not 204 https://cf464749.erisa-uk-test.pages.dev/favicon.ico
saves the bytes consumed transmitting your 404 page and its not used as a favicon because an empty file is not a valid image
so if thats what you need... why not