[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: new HTTP response codes for rate limiting starting 12/16

2009-12-04 Thread Naveen
I would have to agree with mat. But to each their own. The return codes frequently make no sense from twitter, so i guess the fact that it doesn't make sense it is irrelevant, so long as it is consistent. On Dec 3, 6:29 pm, mat mat.st...@gmail.com wrote: Given that 400 is bad request, and the

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: new HTTP response codes for rate limiting starting 12/16

2009-12-03 Thread mat
Given that 400 is bad request, and the client SHOULD NOT repeat the request without modifications (w3.org's emphasis), and 503 means service unavailable, try again later, and can include a retry-after header, would it not have made more sense to change the response code of the REST API to the more