Re: Should missing templates be reported to the user or to the admin

Hi John,

On Tue, 19 May 2020 21:15:24 -0400, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> However the engine thinks that .../issue3?@template=empty is a valid
> url. It's not. There is no empty template. As a result I get an email
> logged on every hit. The user sees a 500 error with the message:

Sending an email for each request is bad - this could also be abused
to overflow the admin's mail box.

> I am considering trapping the NoTemplate error and sending the 
> user the following message:
>
>   No template file exists for templating "issue" with template "empty"
>     (neither "issue.foo" nor "_generic.foo")
>
> with a 200 or 500 status. I am leaning toward the 500 status.

It definitely shouldn't be a 200 status, but I am not sure about 500
either (it's not really a server issue). Wouldn't something in the 4xx
range be more appropriate, maybe even a 404?


Christof

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