Failed Dependency
Production Risk
Low. It is a specific error for chained operations (primarily in WebDAV) and clearly communicates the cause of a cascading failure.
The method could not be performed on the resource because the requested action depended on another action and that action failed. For example, if a command in a PROPPATCH method fails, then at least one of the remaining commands will also fail with 424 Failed Dependency.
- 1In a WebDAV batch operation (PROPPATCH), a request to change a property fails, causing a subsequent request that depended on it to also fail.
- 2This error is used within the body of a 207 Multi-Status response.
A user sends a single request to first move a file and then change its permissions, but the move operation fails, causing the permission change to fail as well.
(This status appears inside the XML body of a 207 Multi-Status response)
expected output
(part of a 207 response)
Fix
Fix the upstream WebDAV operation that is failing
WHEN Debugging a chain of WebDAV operations that includes a 424 in the 207 response body
<!-- Inspect the 207 Multi-Status body for the primary failing operation --> <!-- Fix the root cause error first — 424s will resolve once the dependency succeeds -->
Why this works
424 is always a downstream effect. Find the operation in the 207 response that carries the primary error (typically 403, 409, or 423) and address that one first.
✕ Retry only the 424 operation without fixing the dependency
The 424 will recur until the root dependency failure is resolved.
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