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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">In doing patch [1], A suggestion is submitted that we should return 400 (bad Request) instead of 403 (Forbidden)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I take a look at [</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">2], seems 400 is not a good candidate because </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><i>'</i></font><font size="3" face="serif"><i>The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax. The client SHOULD NOT repeat the request without modifications. </i></font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><i>'</i></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">may be a 409 (conflict) error if we really don't think 403 is a good one? </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Thanks</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">[1] </font><a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/173985/"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/173985/</font></a><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">[2] </font><a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html</font></a><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Best Regards! <br>
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