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REST my ass ๐Ÿ’ฉ (eviltoast.org)
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[โ€“] douglasg14b@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks 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€“] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

So can a 200 response with an error description

[โ€“] brian@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks 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