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Re:HTTP 402: Payment Required by krainboltgreene on Sunday February 02, 2020 @06:13AM (#22216416)
If an admin disables your account by accident, that's still a 401. Just because the client can't change something, doesn't mean it doesn't fit along with the 4XX brand.
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Re:HTTP 402: Payment Required by takeda on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:50PM (#22221030)
401 means authentication is required. If Shopify is sending that to clients, because admin disabled access, that's just another example of abusing the error codes
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