Runscope Blog How to Debug Common API Errors

Introduction Debugging and troubleshooting APIs is something that any developer that works with APIs has to go through at some point. In an ideal world, APIs would always return a 200 OK with just the right data that we need, or in case of a failure, it would return us the perfect status code and error message allowing us to easily understand what went wrong. In reality, APIs don't always work like that. API developers might have constraints that do not allow them to implement the most informative status code or error message, API errors can be triggered by real-world conditions that are hard to account or test for, and sometimes ourselves, as API users, can make requests with typos or mistakes that APIs just don't know how to handle. In this post, we're going to focus on API users and what they can do to debug common API errors they might encounter when testing and working with APIs, whether these APIs are public or private [...]