doc/hook-perl - response codes for authentication
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Fri Dec 26 04:20:38 UTC 2008
Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:
> Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich at gmx.at> writes:
>> Anyway, the reason I'm reading the RFC is because I search for an
>> appropriate way to distinguish internal errors (e.g. "Can't connect to
>> MY-SQL") from authentication errors. Any suggestions?
> That's what 403 is for. As a generic response code, you can return it for
> any command.
> If the server experiences an internal fault or problem that means it
> is unable to carry out the command (for example, a necessary file is
> missing or a necessary service could not be contacted), the response
> code 403 MUST be returned.
Actually, given that nnrpd closes the connection after a non-281 response,
400 is probably even better.
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