Comment 2 for bug 716174
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| Martin Pool (mbp) wrote Re: api error messages should be machine-readable | #2 |
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(Get the code!)
I'm going to reopen it for the sake of discussion.
When a web ui request fails, it includes the OOPS id in a readable form so that users can see it and include it in a bug report. Robert stated he thinks its useful to have users file bugs about OOPSes that cause problems for them.
The web api is asymmetric with this this because the OOPS id is easily lost. Is that useful?
Is there any reason it's positively useful to send HTML requests to machine requests? Why not turn this on across the board.
Every program tries not to have bugs. It's still worth having proper reporting of bugs when they do occur.