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Question

Just setting up a super simple API for something but I have a question. I'm calling the api, and it works perfectly, but I'm wondering about the header status code that's being return.

On all errors, I want to set the error to 500:

header('HTTP 1.1 500 invalid signature');

It's the description I'm curious about. Is there a way to grab that text using CuRL? I can get the code no problem, not the text.

Or can someone recommend and easier way of throwing a status of 500, and passing a string back through to the api file that can show what error happened?

Answer 1

If I were you I would use some other custom header for status message:

header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error');
header('My-Super-Custom-Error-Msg: invalid signature');