Re: Reg: Web Service in IBMi

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The RFCs have always allowed you to return a payload with non-2xx status 
codes.

If you write your own web service with Apache, et al, you can do this as 
well.

It sounds like Suren is having this problem with IWS, so I was hoping to 
see a response from Nadir about it.  Good chance that this is a 
limitation in IWS, but he's the expert.


On 7/25/2019 11:12 AM, B Stone wrote:
> Remember HTTP status codes are for the state of the HTTP communications,
> not what happened in the background (ie, the data they sent was invalid)
>
> I have seen payloads returned with 4xx 5xx codes before though.  Not sure
> what the RFC is on that offhand.  But if IBM is returning no payload, I
> would venture to guess that is the correct method as most other protocols
> IBM is VERY adherent to the RFCs... almost to a fault sometimes.  :)
>
>
> Bradley V. Stone
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