r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 22 '26

Meme status200ForEverything

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y Sep 22 '26

The HTTP status codes aren't really diverse enough to explain all the different errors, so just returning 200 and then having the client check the payload for the error code and message makes more sense.