"Has anyone run into http 451 errors lately? What’s the deal with them?"
Hey folks,
So I was testing an API and suddenly got hit with an http 451. At first, I thought it was a 404 or something, but nope—turns out it’s about *legal* blocks? Like, the site’s been taken down cuz of laws or censorship.
Anyone else seen this in the wild? How do you even handle it? Do you just show a “sorry, this content’s blocked in your region” message? Or is there a smarter way to deal with it?
Also, how common *are* http 451 errors? Should we be prepping for them in dev, or is it pretty rare?
Kinda wild that there’s a whole status code for this lol. Thoughts?
Hey folks,
So I was testing an API and suddenly got hit with an http 451. At first, I thought it was a 404 or something, but nope—turns out it’s about *legal* blocks? Like, the site’s been taken down cuz of laws or censorship.
Anyone else seen this in the wild? How do you even handle it? Do you just show a “sorry, this content’s blocked in your region” message? Or is there a smarter way to deal with it?
Also, how common *are* http 451 errors? Should we be prepping for them in dev, or is it pretty rare?
Kinda wild that there’s a whole status code for this lol. Thoughts?