On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:56:49AM +0100, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > An HTTP server should not deliberately send a 500 error message. > A 500 response denotes all hope is lost when processing a request. > If CouchDB can detect an invalid request is made, it should return > a 400 status code.
The 5xx line of errors indicate an actual internal error with CouchDB. If the client is in error, then the 4xx line of errors should be used. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
