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I really love Atlassian APIs. JSON request gone wrong? Here you have an error in XML! But I geuss that's expected when your documentation only has XML examples.

What about a request for non-existing resource (a file)? That's a 200 OK with an HTML for you! Also, the content of the HTML is "<h1>200 OK</h1>".

Luckily most of the functionality in their products is not implemented through the APIs...




>I really love Atlassian APIs. JSON request gone wrong? Here you have an error in XML!

There's a company I work with that is similar to this: Requests are XML, successful responses are returned as JSON with status 200 (with an empty error status field), errors are returned as XML with status 200, and the error text node is always "An error occured [sic] with your request".




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