[snarfy]

Yep and when I have to investigate production issues, you're the guy that makes me do slow wildcard queries of the detailed error text instead of just filtering on the (indexed) response code. You push your laziness onto the rest of the world that way.

[speedplane]

I actually agree with your sentiment, but disagree with your characterization that it's "laziness"... how about not knowing?

[snarfy]

You're right, that's most likely the main offender. Apologies. I've been consuming a lot of poorly written REST apis lately and am bitter.

[dsego]

The worst one I worked with recently would return 200 and only a human readable error message (no status). On top of that the message is sometimes phrased differently. Here is an example from memory: "The field email is not valid." and "You provided an invalid username."