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gbaygon on April 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ziptastic: Isn't a zipcode enough?

When you query for an inexistent postal code (i.e. http://zip.elevenbasetwo.com/?zip=101)

the page returns "404" as content but the response header is "200 OK".

That is inconvenient, and RESTfully wrong.

UPDATE: added pull request https://github.com/gbaygon/ziptastic/commit/7284cb2e4f863161...

debacle on April 10, 2012 [–]

It has nothing to do with REST.

REST != HTTP

gbaygon on April 10, 2012 | [–]

The point is that regardless of naming, it's not standard HTTP, nor convenient for the developer consuming the api to return soft 404's.

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