Bad request

HTTP 400 / 422 · bad-request — ← all Webpath errors

The request was malformed for this endpoint — bad JSON, a missing field, conflicting flags, or nothing to change.

How to recover. Fix the request body or parameters as the detail describes.

Example response

{
  "type": "https://muse.as/a/webpath/errors/bad-request",
  "title": "Bad request",
  "status": 400,
  "detail": "Fix the request body or parameters as the detail describes."
}

This page documents the bad-request 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.