Support for forcing HTTP status code through HTML (for SPA)

[rrjanbiah]

Since, SPA handles 404 pages in the client side, it needs a mechanism to handle HTTP status code through HTML

For example, https://github.com/GoogleChrome/rendertron#status-codes provides below syntax to pass HTTP status code from HTML:

<meta name="render:status_code" content="??" />

FWIW, tagging active fork authors in case if they have better solution implemented in their fork. @PureLandFlying @plan-my-binge @muhammadmuhlas @mehdipourfar

[muhammadmuhlas]

Hi @rrjanbiah

It's a common case when returning 404 on SPA pages. You need to configure something like _redirects on netlify, or use try_files on nginx. You should see that on the deployment guide of your SPA.

[muhammadmuhlas]

Oh sorry, did you mean that rendora should look up on the meta tags about the http codes of the rendered pages instead of always returning 200?

[rrjanbiah]

@muhammadmuhlas

Oh sorry, did you mean that rendora should look up on the meta tags about the http codes of the rendered pages instead of always returning 200?

Yep, exactly. Similar to Rendertron https://github.com/GoogleChrome/rendertron#status-codes, it should support

<meta name="render:status_code" content="??" />

[muhammadmuhlas]

It is possible to using strings.Contains on get HTML Markup after wait after DOM load

[rrjanbiah]

It is possible to using strings.Contains on get HTML Markup after wait after DOM load

@muhammadmuhlas Thanks for your suggestion.

[muhammadmuhlas]

@rrjanbiah you could also use regex to get the code, but becareful using regex on html response, the cost could be expensive.

[rrjanbiah]

@rrjanbiah you could also use regex to get the code, but becareful using regex on html response, the cost could be expensive.

Thank you so much for your help

[rrjanbiah]

Side note: if anyone reached here through Google search

1. Google seems to handle the 'Soft 404' correctly. Tested with g.co/mobile-friendly
2. For angular.io website, Google itself is handling 'Soft 404' it through noindex meta tag. As noted by https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35989950/how-to-notify-googlebot-about-404-pages-in-angular-spa/61700000#61700000
3. Yet, Rendertron like approach would be a cool feature for Rendora