The server does not support the request payload’s media type. For example, this error occurs if the client sends an Accept: application/xml request header but the API can generate only an application/json response. The server cannot use the client-request media type to return the response payload. The server does not implement the media type that would be acceptable to the client. The service does not support the requested HTTP method. The server does not implement the requested HTTP method. For example, no data exists in the database at that key. Either the URI is incorrect or the resource is not available. The server did not find anything that matches the request URI. A simple data validation error occurred.The data is not in the expected data format.The API cannot convert the payload data to the underlying data type.The server could not understand the request. Request is not well-formed, syntactically incorrect, or violates schema. The server successfully executed the method but returns no response body.įor failed requests, PayPal returns HTTP 4XX status codes if something passed in the request has an error or 5XX status codes when something is wrong on our end with a server or service.įor authentication specific HTTP 4XX status codes, see Authorization errors. The server accepted the request and will execute it later. If the resource was already created by a previous execution of the same method, for example, the server returns the HTTP 200 OK status code. Status codeĪ POST method successfully created a resource. HTTP status codes Successful requestsįor successful requests, PayPal returns HTTP 2XX status codes. Each REST API request returns an HTTP status code. Use these links to request more information about and construct an API flow that is relative to a specific request. Some API calls also return JSON response bodies that include information about the resource including one or more contextual HATEOAS links. PayPal API calls return HTTP status codes.

Https status codes