I’m currently returning 401 Unauthorized whenever I encounter a validation failure in my Django/Piston based REST API application.
Having had a look at the HTTP Status Code Registry
I’m not convinced that this is an appropriate code for a validation failure, what do y’all recommend?
- 400 Bad Request
- 401 Unauthorized
- 403 Forbidden
- 405 Method Not Allowed
- 406 Not Acceptable
- 412 Precondition Failed
- 417 Expectation Failed
- 422 Unprocessable Entity
- 424 Failed Dependency
Update: “Validation failure” above means an application level data validation failure, i.e., incorrectly specified datetime, bogus email address etc.
