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Re: [OAUTH-WG] Returning HTTP 200 on Error for JSONP

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Wed, 18 August 2010 06:36 UTC

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On 18/08/2010, at 3:57 PM, Brian Eaton wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:33 PM, John Panzer <jpanzer@google.com> wrote:
>> Is there any legit reason other than jsonp specifically?
> 
> Protected resource authors are slack and are not going to read the
> spec.  That might not be a great reason, but it's not a bad one
> either.
> 
> The other reason people get funny with these status codes has to do
> with browser behavior.  Sometimes browsers react in funny ways to
> funny HTTP status codes.  To be on the safe side, developers tend to
> return an HTTP 200 with whatever they want the user to see.

Can you give concrete examples, please? What browsers do what exactly, under what circumstances?


> The last reason is that servers fail, and instead of returning the
> error they meant to return they serve up a bit of static HTML that
> says, more or less, "Whoa.  That sucked."
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