#1 Reason (To Me) Why REST Web Services Suck

Posted January 2, 2012

Every time I have to work with REST-based webservices, I want to pull my teeth.

My #1 problem is that they typically use HTTP status codes to report errors/failures. The problem with this is that there is literally no details given as to WHAT failed.

Take Twitter as an example - if you make a server-to-server request, and something goes awry, you get a "401 Unauthorized" response. Well, that's just great ... and what exactly caused the failure? Who knows.

And this isn't isolated to just Twitter, either.

Posted in Programming
Tagged as web and service

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