[travisjungroth]

Would it do this just the first time? It’s still bad it was doing this silently, but it’s pretty common to test web APIs in a similar way manually. Make a request, check the response you get back looks right (important step) and then save it as the expected value.

Edit: or after reading the article, like in the article.

[codetrotter]

It did this every time, not just the first time.

[travisjungroth]

Well, you know what they say: Expect the unexpected!