# joho/7xx-rfc

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## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/joho/7XX-rfc
- awesome-repositories: https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/joho-7xx-rfc.md

## Topics

`rfc` `satire`

## Description

This project is a formal RFC proposal and technical specification for a new range of HTTP status codes. It defines a developer error standard designed to distinguish implementation failures from standard client or server errors within REST API responses.

The specification proposes an extension to the HTTP protocol that introduces reserved numerical ranges for status codes. This system maps unique integer identifiers to specific implementation mistakes, providing precise diagnostic meaning and isolating developer fouls from standard protocol responses while maintaining backward compatibility.

The standard covers API error handling and the developer debugging workflow by establishing a consistent response schema for error payloads. This ensures interoperability between different API clients and servers when reporting implementation failures.

## Tags

### Software Engineering & Architecture

- [Developer Error Standards](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/developer-error-standards.md) — Provides a categorization system for HTTP responses that distinguishes implementation failures from standard client or server errors.
- [API Error Handling Patterns](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/api-error-handling-patterns.md) — Implements patterns for managing and responding to API-specific developer errors.
- [Semantic Error Code Mappings](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/error-code-to-exception-mapping/semantic-error-code-mappings.md) — Links unique integer codes to specific implementation failures to provide precise diagnostic meaning during API communication.
- [Error Type Categorizations](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/error-type-categorizations.md) — Groups specific implementation failure codes into high-level categories for precise diagnostic meaning.
- [Protocol Specification Extensions](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/extensibility-patterns/protocol-extensions/protocol-specification-extensions.md) — Proposes an extension to the HTTP specification by introducing new status codes without breaking backward compatibility.
- [Protocol Change Proposals](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/governance-proposal-lifecycles/language-change-proposals/protocol-change-proposals.md) — Provides a formal technical proposal to change the HTTP protocol specification through a structured RFC process.
- [Diagnostic Numerical Mappings](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/diagnostic-numerical-mappings.md) — Implements a mapping system that links unique integer identifiers to specific implementation mistakes for faster debugging.
- [Reserved Numerical Ranges](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/reserved-numerical-ranges.md) — Assigns a specific block of integer values to separate developer errors from standard HTTP status categories.
- [Status Code Range Isolation](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/status-code-range-isolation.md) — Isolates implementation fouls from standard protocol responses by grouping them within a dedicated numerical series.

### Web Development

- [Developer Implementation Errors](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/web-development/http-request-response-object-layers/standard-http-error-responses/developer-implementation-errors.md) — Defines a new standard for HTTP status codes to distinguish implementation mistakes from standard client or server errors.
- [Developer Error Code Standards](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/web-development/error-handling/error-code-hierarchies/developer-error-code-standards.md) — Defines custom status code ranges to categorize implementation failures and communicate specific errors to developers. ([source](https://github.com/joho/7xx-rfc#readme))
- [Standard HTTP Error Responses](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/web-development/http-request-response-object-layers/standard-http-error-responses.md) — Provides predefined models for standardizing the reporting of implementation failures via HTTP status codes.
- [Status Code Range Definitions](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/web-development/http-status-code-management/status-code-filters/status-code-range-definitions.md) — Groups specific HTTP status codes into reserved numerical ranges to isolate developer errors.
- [Response Structure Standardization](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/web-development/rest-apis/api-response-validation/response-structure-standardization.md) — Applies consistent data structures to error payloads to ensure interoperability between clients and servers.
- [RESTful API Designs](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/web-development/restful-api-designs.md) — Establishes a standard protocol for reporting developer errors within REST API architectural patterns.

### Networking & Communication

- [Protocol Extensions](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/networking-communication/custom-protocol-implementations/protocol-extensions.md) — Defines mechanisms for adding non-standard status codes to the existing HTTP protocol implementation.
- [HTTP Status Code Extensions](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/networking-communication/http-clients/http-status-codes/http-status-code-extensions.md) — Proposes new status code ranges to the HTTP specification for more precise diagnostic meaning.
- [HTTP Status Code Specifications](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/networking-communication/http-clients/http-status-codes/http-status-code-specifications.md) — Defines a proposed standard for a new range of HTTP status codes used to communicate developer implementation errors.
- [HTTP Interaction Standards](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/networking-communication/http-interaction-standards.md) — Establishes shared specifications for HTTP messages to ensure consistent communication of implementation failures.

### Part of an Awesome List

- [Diagnostic Debugging Workflows](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/awesome-lists/devtools/development-workflow/diagnostic-debugging-workflows.md) — Categorizes implementation mistakes using dedicated status codes to separate developer fouls from standard errors.

### Content Management & Publishing

- [Standard Specification Authoring](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/content-management-publishing/standard-specification-authoring.md) — Creates formal technical documents to propose new networking standards for community review.

### Security & Cryptography

- [API Schema Standardization](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/security-cryptography/api-schema-standardization.md) — Defines standardized data structures for error response bodies to ensure consistency across API clients.