I learned about this http response code too late. About 4 years ago I was working at a startup and I was the “lead engineer” (aka only engineer) on a project where I had to design and implement an entire REST API. I really wish I would have put this in somewhere, since we weren’t doing code review (because it was literally only me).

The instructions didn’t tell me I needed to. I don’t know how someone is supposed to know that. I would have expected the instructions to at very least tell me I needed to make that and what the file name should be. But I did eventually figure it out. I had to search their github page to find the example one, then modify it for https