Re: 202 Response to GET request

"Eric J. Bowman" <[email protected]> Sat, 5 Oct 2013 14:12:44 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.services.rest
Organization Bison Systems Corporation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Unmesh Joshi wrote:
> 
> I recently came across an API which was returning '202 Accepted'
> response to GET request. It seemed a bit odd.
>

I don't want to rule out a 202 response to a GET, but if the response
is the same as one would expect to receive with a 200 then it's a
borked server.  Without going into details, a 200 should be a 200,
plain and simple.

-Eric