On: Choosing an HTTP Status Code

[nitrogen]

I've seen APIs that always return 200 because the iOS app that was the API consumer couldn't handle non-200 responses (something about it being harder to get the response body IIRC).

[oxguy3 → nitrogen]

Dunno bout iOS but I know Java's built-in HTTP library requires you do something like `if (status<400) { stream = getResponseStream() } else { stream = getErrorStream()}`. It's so silly.

[paulddraper → oxguy3]

Yeah, Java's HTTP stuff is barely usable. If you are doing more then playing around, use singing better.

Apache httpclient is a very well constructed library. And there are bunch of other smaller ones.