Is REST DELETE really idempotent?

Question

DELETE is supposed to be idempotent.

If I DELETE http://example.com/account/123 it\'s going to delete the account.

If I do it again would I expect a 404, sin

Answer 1

I think the same thing, 404 - Account doesn't exist.

You could argue 400 - Bad Request. But in the sense of REST the object you requested to perform an action on doesn't exist. That translates to 404.