internal

HTTP 500 — Internal error

When you see it

Something failed on the server that was not your request’s fault.

What to do

Retry with backoff. Quote the request_id from the response body if you report it — it is the only handle that ties your call to the server log, which carries no request bodies.

The response

Every error is RFC 9457 problem+json:

{
  "type": "https://devs.inittasks.com/errors/internal",
  "title": "Internal error",
  "status": 500,
  "detail": "a sentence for a developer; never branch on it",
  "instance": "/todos/8E4F2A1B",
  "request_id": "3f9a1c7e-2b44-4d1e-9c30-5a7e8b2d1f60"
}

Branch on type, never on detail or on the HTTP status alone — several codes share a status.