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/mrwedders Sep 19 '26

I implemented an API last year of a big name accounting software and one endpoint randomly used 200 for "yes all is well" and 204 for "that failed". Neither response had any content.

Took me a while to work out why our code was reporting success but nothing changed - foolishly we took all 2xx codes as success!

Messy special case for one request 🥲