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[โ€“] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 43 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Please, please, please, PLEASE return error-codes and problem-details.

Here's the RFC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9457.html

[โ€“] douglasg14b@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months 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

[โ€“] brian@programming.dev 2 points 4 months 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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