The effect of this can be significant spikes in the rate of 500 errors which trigger ops investigations when some app accessing the api sends a lot of requests containing such errors.
These are bad requests and the correct response is 400 bad request.
Elda responds to requests with unknown shortnames with a 500 internal server error response, e.g.
https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/doc/region/devon.html?_properties=label,sameas
s/sameas/sameAs/ works.
The effect of this can be significant spikes in the rate of 500 errors which trigger ops investigations when some app accessing the api sends a lot of requests containing such errors.
These are bad requests and the correct response is 400 bad request.