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REST my ass 💩 (eviltoast.org)

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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

Counter argument is that error codes and problem details can be used by attackers to reverse engineer and find exploitable parts of a system.

Within reason anyways

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

So can a 200 response with an error description

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[–] brian@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

yeah, ofc it should only be a curated set of errors where the consumer can do something about it. unknown errors should just be opaque 500s

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