What are the best practices on processing HTTP responds from WCF RESTful service?

Question

I am wondering how to process responds from WCF RESTful service in a right way. For example, service could throw new WebFaultException(HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized); . But how can I get a particular reason of this respond and process it on client? I know that I could use WebFaultException<T> and extend exception with some data describing details. But what if client is written in native C++ or php... The whole idea is to interact with the service from console application (could be written using a huge set of languages) via HTTP/HTTPS and query some data.

Answer 1

The output is available in two forms JSON and XML, and handling error would depend on how it is being structred in the response.

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