Re: [yapcom] Reporting an Error to the User Upon Failed Registration

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From: Gabor Szabo
Subject: Re: [yapcom] Reporting an Error to the User Upon Failed Registration
Date: 20:02 on 24 Nov 2003
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote:

>
> Notice that I corrected it. Now we assign $msg the exception string, but don't
> do anything with it. Then we pass a generic MESSAGE string (that does not
> tell the user what the problem is) to the template. Notice my correction. A
> better one may be including the generic message followed by the particular
> error.
>
> I'm not sending a patch yet, because I noticed it would break our test
> scripts. (which can arguably be broken as well). What should we do?
>


Ok, the reason I did not want to send the real error message is because
if that comes from the database (or maybe in other cases, i don't
remember) it will contain physical path and maybe other info that might
be sensitive.

So I decided to postpone this.

I thought of adding a number to each one of our error codes that we send,
eg. prepend with "YAPCOM_ERROR #37 - " and then at the web interface level
we will know if this is from us or from beneath us.

Then we can also have a separate file in the templates directory that will
translate ERROR #37 to some string that the template people can maintain.

Some research of how other do this might needed here to see other options.

Gabor


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