Errors Codes

In the event of receiving an HTTP 40x response from a Short URL API request, the response body will contain a JSON document showing a response code and human readable error string.

{
  "result_code": "100",
  "result_message": "Un-parsable Request Document",
  "client_reference": "...if provided during original request..."
} 

Result Code List

Result Code	Should Retry	Result Message
-4	No	Unsupported Media Type
-3	No	Not Acceptable
-2	No	HTTP method not allowed
-1	Yes	There has been an internal error!
2	No	Authentication Failure
100	No	Un-Parsable Request Document – The JSON request document supplied was not correctly formed
101	No	The request was missing a required remote_url field
102	No	The request contained a badly formed URL in remote_url field
103	No	The new masked url does not include a valid account id for required credentials
104	No	That combination of query parameters is not possible
106	No	Cannot add a short-url enterprise config for this enterprise/entity/year/month - it already exists
107	No	You already have the maximum number of currently active short-urls active on this account
108	No	The valid_until_date value is too far in the future
109	No	The valid_until_date value must be in the future
110	No	The valid_until_date value is not far enough in the future
404	No	Not found
412	No	Stale update entity

Note: First four result codes have Negative values

Result Code List​

Result Code List