Custom HTTP Status Codes (a la Twitter 420: Enhance Your Calm) [migrated]
- by Max Bucknell
I'm currently implementing an HTTP API, my first ever.
I've been spending a lot of time looking at the Wikipedia page for HTTP status codes, because I'm determined to implement the right codes for the right situations. Listed on that page is a code with number 420, which is a custom code that Twitter used to use for rate limiting.
There is…