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		user24 on June 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HTTP 402 – Payment Required Uh, before we all start getting our payment APIs to return 402s in a million different and incompatible scenarios, I'd urge everyone to remember what "reserved" means". It means "don't use this until we've defined it properly".

3pt14159 on June 6, 2014 [–]

Meh. Just start doing things. Apple uses this code, YouTube uses this code (in the wrong way, I might add), it isn't the end of the world.

elros on June 7, 2014 | [–]

I don't know how Apple uses it, but at $dayjob we use it with the same semantics as YouTube: When we determine there's need to display a CAPTCHA.

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