Two standards are reviving HTTP 402, and it changes who owns the customer
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HTTP 402 has sat unused in the spec since the early web. Two competing standards are now bringing it back, and the reason matters more than the trivia. x402 , from Coinbase. An agent requests a resource, the server answers 402 with payment instructions, the agent signs a stablecoin transaction and…
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- 2026-09-23 11:06 · DEV Community — AI
Two standards are reviving HTTP 402, and it changes who owns the customer