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net/http: serveContent should 500 instead of 404 on error #10283

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bradfitz opened this issue Mar 29, 2015 · 2 comments
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net/http: serveContent should 500 instead of 404 on error #10283

bradfitz opened this issue Mar 29, 2015 · 2 comments
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http's fs.go contains:

        f, err := fs.Open(name)
        if err != nil {
                // TODO expose actual error?                                                                                                                                                
                NotFound(w, r)
                return
        }
        defer f.Close()

        d, err1 := f.Stat()
        if err1 != nil {
                // TODO expose actual error?                                                                                                                                                
                NotFound(w, r)
                return
        }

This bug is about those TODOs.

We should send a 500 instead of a 404. Sending the actual error text is probably too risky (might contain sensitive information). Instead, we could just log it.
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Brad it's not quite correct, if error is permission-related, the web-servers normally give 403. Non-existing files return 404.

I can imagine there should be errors that should result in 500 but normally two above should handle most of the cases (*CGI, proxying and SSI are usual suspects for 500)

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Sent https://go-review.googlesource.com/9200

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