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Similarly, I once worked somewhere that had an HTTP API that returned status code 200 {“error”: “ok”} to indicate an error occurred.

Schiendelman 3 months ago [–]

A lot of GraphQL APIs are like this! They return a 200 just to mean the damn GraphQL is well formed, and the call can totally fail underneath.

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