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I am borderline sad that this is only an RFC. The number of services I use that I wish had a "warning" side-channel for letting me know something in my query w

• slowmovintarget 4y ago
  There's nothing that says you can't have system messages as a boilerplate part of response bodies, even if you don't populate it. In fact, it's the recommended way to do things like tell a client things it might need to know. Example: "The game servers will be shutting down in 15 minutes for maintenance."
  • shadowgovt 4y ago
    True, but that means it has to be an ad hoc solution for every API instead of a standard.
• pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
  It's not even an RFC, it's just a pastebin post pretending to be one.
• SilasX 4y ago
  Heh, after I posted it, a former co-worker forgot that was just an April Fool's joke and then, at his new workplace, seriously suggested handling one case by "throwing a 397".