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Re:API Practices If You Hate Your Customers by reificator on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @06:32PM (#21767917)
IIRC cross domain requests are often one of the causes for this style of API design. I remember in older browsers at least anything not in 2XX would be unreadable by the client, so they had no idea what actually went wrong on the frontend.
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Re:API Practices If You Hate Your Customers by zonidjan on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @06:55PM (#21768081)
That's... extremely rare, extremely ancient, and even then was usually only a problem below a certain page length.
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