What is the best way to return errors from a WCF service in a RESTful way?

Question

Using WCF in a RESTful way seems great. I’m a big fan of the big guns like simplicity and flexibility, but I also love the way the Urls end up looking. What can I say, I’m a

Answer 1

This may be a defect. As of 9/22/2011, the issue is under review by the product team:

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/690162/wcf-rest-custom-outgoingwebresponsecontext-statusdescription-not-returned-in-response