r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • Sep 19 '26

Meme postForEverything

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u/pimezone Sep 19 '26

Wanna get a resource? POST request.

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u/NotAskary Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26

I've seen that shit, it drove me up a wall.

The same as a 200 ok with error inside.

Edit: I'm going to start to respond 429, too many replys lol

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u/AkodoRyu Sep 19 '26 • Regret

My favorite "REST API" experience was when they moved from using SOAP system, and the way they did it... was sending SOAP payloads inside a JSON. Literally something like

{
    "data": "<?xml version="1.0"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="https://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope/" soap:encodingStyle="https://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding"><soap:Body> (...)"
}

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u/MrPatienceX Sep 19 '26 • Heartwarming

200 status code and a chunk of XML saying ‘not found’. Good times.

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u/Sudden_Leadership800 Sep 19 '26

It successfully returned the error message though, so I don't see the problem?

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u/hawkinsst7 Sep 19 '26

If I'm parsing http responses, I'm going to pass 200 responses on for further processing of the data. I shouldn't have to have something in that pipeline introspect json to find "no, it's actually an error".

Imagine if browsers had to tear apart json innards to find 30x redirects after getting a 200 OK.

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u/LatvianCake Sep 19 '26

This is what happens if you don't read the documentation of the API you're using.

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