On Jul 7, 12:42 pm, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote:
> I've used 409 (Conflict) a lot to signal back to my application that  
> an Ajax request went wrong at the server level (409 and Ajax are both  
> powerful household cleaner brands, so it's my private-joke-over-HTTP  
> status). But if I want to be semantic at the error code level, what  
> code best signals "you, the user, did something incomplete or wrong,  
> so you are not getting a 200 for your effort"?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Walter

To my mind, HTTP response codes aren't for application logic
signalling. They're for signalling between the browser and server. The
correct response to bum data from the user is a 200 with an
application-logic-level success/error flag. I wouldn't conflate the
transport and business logic layer errors.

(The 409 / Ajax thing *is* funny.)

FWIW...
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T.J. Crowder
Independent Software Engineer
tj / crowder software / com
www / crowder software / com

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