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I am writing a web service that accepts only json, and also outputs only json.
So I need to return the appropriate status code if any other format is requested.
It appears that I have two choices:
It would be great if someone could enlighten me as to the semantics of the two codes.
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The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 406 Not Acceptable client error response code indicates that the server cannot produce a response matching the list of acceptable values defined in the request's proactive content negotiation headers, and that the server is unwilling to supply a default representation.
The HTTP 415 Unsupported Media Type client error response code indicates that the server refuses to accept the request because the payload format is in an unsupported format.
The 415 Unsupported Media Type error code usually indicates that the request entity has a media type that the server or resource does not support. The best way to fix the error is to make sure that you are sending the right Content-Type header value.
406 is returned by the server when it can't respond based on accepting the request headers (ie they have an Accept header which states they only want XML).
415 is returned by the server when the entity sent in a request (content in a POST or PUT) has an unsupported mediatype (i.e. they sent XML).
so.. 406 when you can't send what they want, 415 when they send what you don't want.
Hope that helps!
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Accept header was sent you cannot fullfill.Content-Type is sent you cannot use.
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