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[โ€“] [email protected] 124 points 6 months ago (15 children)

Better than a 200 JSON reply containing the 4xx. "Aay it worked!" "oh."

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (6 children)

This legitimately happened to me a few months ago. A vendor API was returning HTTP 200 with the error details embedded in the JSON response. It was a pain in the ass to troubleshoot.

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