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Re:REST Anti-Patterns (2008) by dustingetz on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @07:36PM (#14312713)
yeah but there are bits in the ~2000 era backend request pipeline that don't understand anything but 200 or do weird things, embedding response code in 200 body lets us tunnel through whatever weird legacy shit
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Re:REST Anti-Patterns (2008) by JimDabell on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:11AM (#14314522)
> there are bits in the ~2000 era backend request pipeline that don't understand anything but 200

There's badly written buggy software from any time period doing all sorts of crazy shit, but only accepting 200 certainly wasn't the norm, or even commonplace back then.

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