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Internal server error (internal)

Type: https://docs.cafaye.com/errors/internal

HTTP status: 500

Title: Internal server error

A reserved code. The status is fixed at 500 by the contract, so a client that sees this code can act on the status without reading further.

{
"type": "https://docs.cafaye.com/errors/internal",
"title": "Internal server error",
"status": 500,
"detail": "an example internal response",
"instance": "/v1/example",
"code": "internal",
"trace_id": "0af7651916cd43dd8448eb211c80319c"
}

Contract infrastructure — this URI is permanent. PLAN §1 stability rule 2 / DECISIONS.md MD30 exempts docs.cafaye.com/errors/<code> from every docs redesign and path rewrite: a client may store this URI and dereference it years later. The only permitted change is the addition of a new <code>.

See also: the error contract index and core’s OpenAPI conventions.