9| 10|# HTTP 402 Is Back: How get402 Revives the Payment Required Status Code 11| 12|For...
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10|# HTTP 402 Is Back: How get402 Revives the Payment Required Status Code
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12|For decades, HTTP 402 "Payment Required" sat dormant in the HTTP specification — a reserved status code with no standardized implementation. While every other 4xx status code found its purpose, 402 remained a ghost in the machine, waiting for the right moment.
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Cloudflare's Pay-Per-Crawl adds a third HTTP outcome: 402 with a price tag. A 40-line handler, and a synthetic run where a naive…
x402 turns an HTTP 402 Payment Required into something an autonomous agent can actually act on: the...
TL;DR: x402 is an open standard that lets software, including AI agents, pay for APIs, data, and...
HTTP has had a payment status code since 1997. It still doesn't have a native identity one. x401...
I run a content site, do-and-coffee.com. Like everyone else, it gets scraped by AI crawlers. Instead...
The problem it solves When you're building or testing a pay-per-request API with MPP...
