Django custom handler404 shows 404 but gives header 200

I made a custom handler404 for a authenticated Django website to avoid information leakage. ``` def check_logged_in_404(request): """ Custom 404. Show friendly 404 when logged in and redirect to /login when not logged in. """ if request.user.is_authenticated(): return render_to_response('404.html') else: return HttpResponseRedirect('/login') ``` Functionally it does exactly what I want. However the 404 return page has a status 200, which is correct code-wise. But this obviously needs to be a 404 return status. A raise404 doesn't work because, if not ending in a infinite recursion, it comes back here and thus results in the same issue. I tried a HttpResponseNotFound, but this only takes a string as a argument and not a template, which is not to DRY-ish. And I manually tried to set the header with: ``` response = render_to_response('404.html') response['Status'] = "Not Found - 404" return response ``` Then the status header is indeed set but the browser still shows up a 200. I'm out of options .. Anybody that has tips, please be my hero ... :) Thanx and regards, Gerard. Edit: I tried the status field value in all sort btw, but no luck :(