Invalid access rule

HTTP 422 · bad-access-rule — ← all Webpath errors

A drop-box _access.json rule is malformed.

How to recover. Fix the rule shape — for example, formats must be an array.

Example response

{
  "type": "https://muse.as/a/webpath/errors/bad-access-rule",
  "title": "Invalid access rule",
  "status": 422,
  "detail": "Fix the rule shape \u2014 for example, formats must be an array."
}

This page documents the bad-access-rule error type returned in Webpath RFC 7807 application/problem+json responses. The machine-readable detail field carries a recovery hint you can show a user verbatim — see the Spec §12 and API Reference.