delete friend from friend list (graph api) - facebook-graph-api

I'm using Spring Social Facebook (Java) to call Graph API methods for friend lists, using an app-specific access_token that contains all available permissions.
I can create a list and add members to it. But when I want to remove a member,
DELETE https://graph.facebook.com/{LIST_ID}/members/{USER_ID}?access_token={ACCESS_TOKEN}
...the call fails with a 400 error.
I tried calling the same 'delete' URL from my own java client code (Jersey) and got the same 400 error:
400 Bad Request
Method Not Implemented
Invalid method in request
But the same 'delete' URL works no problem if I use it:
- in the Graph API debug tool
- in the "RESTClient" Firefox extension
Any ideas why the java code is having trouble with this delete call?

I ended up using a batch request (even for a single call) and it worked fine. Probably a bug.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/batch/

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I don't really understand why this is happening, and my google searches have not been helpful.
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I have the following API downloaded in JSON from Swagger Editor:
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I probably do something wrong, but I can't figure out what
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Alexandre
I finally found out that the server returns a cookie that holds authentication validation. So after a valid authentication, whatever the request (with or without authentication) it will be considered as authentified.
Unfortunately, the only way to overcome that problem is to remove the cookie by hand through the "Manage cookies" window. Postman does not implement a function that erase it (even through the pm.cookies and pm.cookies.clear() function).
Postman developpers are aware of that, but there's no scheduling for this feature ...
EDIT: the feature is followed here https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/3312

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I am trying to setup a simple API test against a local endpoint. I have create the sample API (phone number lookup) and that works fine.
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Did Google recently change the return code sent to clients when the delete member call is invoked with a memberKey parameter that does not represent a current member of the group from 404 Not Found to 400 Bad Request?
I tested using the Admin SDK Explorer found at this page: https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/reference/members/delete . I used the group's email address as the groupKey and a user's (non-member) email address as the memberKey.
If so what is the best way for developers to become aware of such changes?
Scouring the Admin SDK reference returned no results for error/response code definitions. This is a serious missing feature of the documentation. I'm unsure how Google expects developer to handle errors when we can't know what the errors will be.
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