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Thank you. If I return 409 Conflict, How can the client decipher if the conflict occured because the username is already used up or if the password criteria is unacceptable to the Server?? How can the server construct the response so that the client gets the necessary information it needs to present to the user?:

user6123723
– user6123723

2015-10-22 04:26:11 +00:00
Commented Oct 22, 2015 at 4:26
Renaming the endpoint from "register" to "users" should be enough, right?

bigstones
– bigstones

2015-10-22 06:05:58 +00:00
Commented Oct 22, 2015 at 6:05
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@user1324816: 409 expects you to add to the response body "enough information for the user to recognize the source of the conflict".

bigstones
– bigstones

2015-10-22 06:14:50 +00:00
Commented Oct 22, 2015 at 6:14

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