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REST my ass πŸ’© (eviltoast.org)
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[–] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Then just return a 500 - Server error. Nice and obscure.

The ability to separate "something wrong with what you sent" (4XX) and "something wrong on the server" (5XX) is very valuable in itself.

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Yep

  • 2xx - it's good
  • 3xx - not here cunt
  • 4xx - you don fucked up
  • 5xx - we fucked up, whatever you do aint changing shit.
[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The number of times I've gotten 5xx codes for bad requests is annoyingly high.

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Fair. But they still fucked up so at least that's on them

I guess it's like a retail worker apologising excessively because of trauma.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

1xx - We’re still working on it

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And then there's 418

[–] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

good old 418, always appears when you really want a cup of coffee

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

Respond to everything as a teapot