Simon Willison’s Weblog

RFC 7807: Problem Details for HTTP APIs (via) This RFC has been brewing for quite a while, and is currently in last call (ends 2022-11-03). I’m designing the JSON error messages for Datasette at the moment so this could not be more relevant for me.

# 1st November 2022, 3:15 am / errors, http, json, mark-nottingham, rfc, standards

Writing Bulletproof Apps with API Errorpoints. This is a very good idea: Web APIs should offer special API endpoints for simulating each of the possible errors that might be returned by the production API.

# 16th August 2010, 7:12 pm / apis, errors, webapis, recovered

Poorly Macbook, ineffective error message design. Nat’s MacBook died the other day, throwing out some impressively meaningless error symbols. How exactly are you meant to Google for a circle with a line through it?

# 13th January 2008, 11:31 pm / apple, errors, google, macbook, natalie-downe, searchability, usability