From c0db9215ecf86f77c23f3aec5a874df21141660e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amanda McCann <amanda@technomancy.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:00:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Return status code 500 (instead of 200) when there's a run
 time error

HTTP 200 is for when there is no problem.
---
 src/overpass_api/frontend/web_output.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/overpass_api/frontend/web_output.cc b/src/overpass_api/frontend/web_output.cc
index 684cddf54..0bb73859a 100644
--- a/src/overpass_api/frontend/web_output.cc
+++ b/src/overpass_api/frontend/web_output.cc
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ void Web_Output::runtime_error(const std::string& error)
   {
     std::ostringstream out;
     out<<"runtime error: "<<error;
-    display_error(out.str(), 200);
+    display_error(out.str(), 500);
   }
 }