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[Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 11-06-15 06:05 PM, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> We have a bunch of exceptions that are mapped to 400 but should really
> be mapped to 404. NoSuchPPA, NoSuchDistroSeries, NoSuchBranch, etc.

More precision is nice, but I'm a bit worried that 404 may be too
contextual.  I interpret 404 as "The resource requested at this URL does
not exist".  So if I'm retrieving a branch that doesn't exist, a 404
seems like a reasonable status code.  But if I'm supplying a branch that
doesn't exist as a POST or GET parameter to another URL, e.g. to set a
series branch, 404 suggests that the URL (i.e. the series), not the
branch parameter, doesn't exist.

Aaron
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