Successful creations usually return a 201 Created response, along with a Location header with the permalink of the new resource. Validation errors return 400 Client Error, with an xml hash of the errors. This is according to ActiveResource anyway. I think the Atom Pub API is similar, yet it actually sends the new xml with a successful create, along with the Location header.
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