[wp-hackers] 404's not showing if '%category%' is in permalink

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http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8244

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:28:19 +1100, Alex Hempton-Smith  
<hempsworth at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have a custom permalink structure like this: /%category%/%postname%/
>
> When I visit a URL which should be a 404, I get given the message
> "Sorry, but there aren't any posts in the category yet.".
> Shouldn't WordPress recognize that the category doesn't exist and serve  
> up a
> 404 instead?
>
> -- Alex
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