I've been abusing HTTP Status Codes in my APIs for years

Re:I've been abusing HTTP Status Codes in my APIs for years by thr0wawayf00 on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @09:04AM (#32082062)

I've always interpreted 422 to fit this case: a well-formed request that cannot be processed due to the content in the payload.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/422

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Re:I've been abusing HTTP Status Codes in my APIs for years by zinekeller on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @09:15AM (#32082198)

Unfortunately, literal reading of 422 implies that the sent content has error(s) and not the header. It's close, but I still feel that for GET requests it's wrong.

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