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jaywalk
on June 23, 2022
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Hardening the registers: A cascading failure of ed...
I think a better solution would be to use the 404 code but include a body with the detailed error. That way the response to an invalid URL looks different from an actual item not being found.
hn_throwaway_99
on June 23, 2022
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But many clients don't even look at the body if the response is a 404.
jaywalk
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True, but we're talking about fully internal systems here, where one party is in control of both the client and server.
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