RFC 9290: Concise Problem Details for Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) APIs
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document defines a concise "problem detail" as a way to carry machine-readable details of errors in a Representational State Transfer (REST) response to avoid the need to define new error response formats for REST APIs for constrained environments. The format is inspired by, but intended to be more concise than, the problem details for HTTP APIs defined in RFC 7807.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC9290
- Published
- October 2022
- Authors
- T. Fossati; C. Bormann
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- wit
- Pages
- 21
- Also known as
- —
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