[throwaway894345]

That's just awful programming, and the parent's suggestion wouldn't have addressed that. It would have instead resulted in "1000 minutes" or whatever their status code was.

[reaperducer]

That's just awful programming, and the parent's suggestion wouldn't have addressed that.

It would have if the API used the HTTP status number to indicate the number of minutes.

I've seen crazier things in web APIs.