December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
316 pages
6h 58m
English
Content preview from Building RESTful Web services with Go
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4xx family (client error)
These are the standard error status codes which the client needs to interpret and handle further actions. These have nothing to do with the server. A wrong request format or ill-formed REST method can cause these errors. Of these, the most frequent status codes API developers use are 400, 401, 403, 404, and 405:
- 400 (Bad Request) is returned when the server cannot understand the client request.
- 401 (Unauthorized) is returned when the client is not sending the authorization information in the header.
- 403 (Forbidden) is returned when the client has no access to a certain type of resources.
- 404 (Not Found) is returned when the client request is on a resource that is nonexisting.
- 405 (Method Not Allowed) is returned ...