REST API 404: Bad URI, or Missing Resource?

Question

I\'m building a REST API, but I\'ve encountered a problem.

It seems that accepted practice in designing a REST API is that if the resource requested doesn\'t exist,

Answer 1

This old but excellent article... http://www.infoq.com/articles/webber-rest-workflow says this about it...

404 Not Found - The service is far too lazy (or secure) to give us a real reason why our request failed, but whatever the reason, we need to deal with it.