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At a prior job, our ~~API~~ load balancers would swallow all errors and return an HTTP 200 response with no content. It was because we had one or two clients with shitty integrations that couldn't handle anything but 200. Of course, they brought in enough money that we couldn't ever force them to fix it on their end.
Why not
POST /to/the/api?withCorrectErrorCodes?Assuming there was some API key system in place, could just check on the key to see if it belongs to one of those clients. If yes, 200. Else, real APIs.