IG API error code
IG API error: error.switch.cannot-set-default-account
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error.switch.cannot-set-default-account - Kind
- API error code
- HTTP status
- 500
- API
- IG
What does error.switch.cannot-set-default-account mean on the IG API?
The switch could not make the target account the new default account. IG lists it for the PUT method of the session endpoint.
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No fix in the source
The vendor's page gives no remedy.
That is all the source says, so this page does not invent a fix. General guidance: what HTTP 500 means and how other APIs use it, the other errors with HTTP 500 recorded for IG, and the error lookup for the exact text of the reply you received.