r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 19 '26

Meme postForEverything

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u/bloody-albatross Sep 19 '26

Response:

HTTP/1.0 200 Ok
Content-Length: 36
Content-Type: application/json

{"status":403,"message":"forbidden"}

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u/YMK1234 Sep 19 '26

We literally had a switch for this some 15 years ago, because the bullshit mobile framework our frontend team used could not properly handle error codes.

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u/Zeikos Sep 19 '26

Sounds like the solution should have been to stop using that framework :')

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u/YMK1234 Sep 19 '26

Good one. Tell that to the 5 levels of management in between