From f530dba9ef6d4df9bbe5a1cac25c75a12d1a5e15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Dix <paul@pauldix.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:50:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Make the api write header first for bad request.

---
 src/hapi/api.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/hapi/api.go b/src/hapi/api.go
index b1e28ab7c8..89a8d4f6bb 100644
--- a/src/hapi/api.go
+++ b/src/hapi/api.go
@@ -150,8 +150,8 @@ func (self *HttpServer) writePoints(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	serializedSeries := []*SerializedSeries{}
 	err = json.Unmarshal(series, &serializedSeries)
 	if err != nil {
-		w.Write([]byte(err.Error()))
 		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadRequest)
+		w.Write([]byte(err.Error()))
 		return
 	}