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		woodruffw on May 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Deactivates Web Search API Probably because HTTP status codes are perceived to be at a different layer of the response than the body. A lot of developers (myself included, for trivial things) treat HTTP bodies as strings with no associated metadata.

jsmthrowaway on May 4, 2016 [–]

It's debatable, but that's probably antithetical to how HTTP is supposed to be perceived when you start thinking about what a body is.

woodruffw on May 4, 2016 | [–]

I would tend to agree. Speaking beyond convenience, this isn't a practice that's easy to justify ;)

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