The following is a list of HTTP status error code conditions that may occur for a particular request.
In general, the service follows the HTTP specification. That is to say that 5xx returns are generally ephemeral server problems that should be resolved shortly or are the result of a bug. 4xx returns are used to mark requests that cannot be carried out, generally due to bad input in the request or problems with the underlying data. 3xx returns are used to mark requests that are content redirects . A 2xx return is expected when there is a successful tile response for a given tile coordinate, list of layers, and file format.
The following status codes are returned from the vector tile service:
200 OK: The request has succeeded.304 Not Modified: Tile hasn't changed since the last time it was requested and there is no need to retransmit the resource since the client still has a previously-downloaded copy.400 Bad Request: An input parameter was invalid. An error message is included in the response body with more details.403 Forbidden: The URL is invalid or the path is no longer valid.404 Not Found: The URL is invalid or the path is no longer valid.429 Too Many Requests: Rate limiting, refer to Mapzen's rate limits documentation.500 Internal Server Error: Generic fatal error.502 Bad Gateway: Connection was lost to the tileserver cluster.
In the 200 OK case above, the tile response body will be valid GeoJSON, TopoJSON, or MVT document. In the other cases a text file will be returned with a message and the response header will specify the HTML status code.