HTTP 410 — Gone

The resource requested is no longer available and will not be available again

When to use it

Use status 410 when this is the correct HTTP response semantic: The resource requested is no longer available and will not be available again

Request and response example

GET /protected-resource HTTP/1.1
Host: api.example.com

HTTP/1.1 410 Gone
Content-Type: application/json

{"error":"Request cannot be completed"}

Related status codes

400, 401, 402, 403

References

MDN · RFC 9110