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428 Precondition Required (RFC 6585)

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The origin server requires the request to be conditional. Intended to prevent the 'lost update' problem, where a client GETs a resource's state, modifies it, and PUTs it back to the server, when meanwhile a third party has modified the state on the server, leading to a conflict.

4xx client error – the request contains bad syntax or cannot be fulfilled


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