I am thinking 412 (Precondition Failed) but there may be a better standard? 9 Answers 9 Status 422 seems most appropiate based on the spec. The 422 (Unprocessable Entity) status code means the server understands the content type of the request entity (hence a 415(Unsupported Media Type) status code is inappropriate), and the syntax of … Read more
I am building an application with a REST-based API and have come to the point where I am specifying status codes for each requests. What status code should i send for requests failing validation or where a request is trying to add a duplicate in my database? I’ve looked through http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html but none of them … Read more
I’m building a server that allows clients to store objects. Those objects are fully constructed at client side, complete with object IDs that are permanent for the whole lifetime of the object. I have defined the API so that clients can create or modify objects using PUT: PUT /objects/{id} HTTP/1.1 … {json representation of the … Read more
What status code should I set for UPDATE (PUT) and DELETE (e.g. product successfully updated)? 10 For a PUT request: HTTP 200, HTTP 204 should imply “resource updated successfully”. HTTP 201 if the PUT request created a new resource. For a DELETE request: HTTP 200 or HTTP 204 should imply “resource deleted successfully”. HTTP 202 … Read more
For a web page that exists, but for which a user does not have sufficient privileges (they are not logged in or do not belong to the proper user group), what is the proper HTTP response to serve? 401 Unauthorized? 403 Forbidden? Something else? What I’ve read on each so far isn’t very clear on … Read more
