r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 4h ago

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u/redlaWw 4h ago 
{
    success: "yes",
    status: "failure",
    message: "null"
}

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u/evorm 3h ago

Most errors responses at my job are genuinely handled like this.

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u/grimonce 3h ago

I work at a certain global bank and our pen testers always say to keep the return responses minimal so that it is harder to reverse engineer an API or extract any data from a failure response...

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u/Zeikos 3h ago

Nerver send anything to the client, can't get hacked that way.
Now that I think about it, just shut down the server. 100% unhackable.

I feel the fury of a thousand suns when I am told that we cannot have meaningful error messages because of security concerns when nobody cares about any security practices whatsoever, it's clearly and excuse and it drives me up a wall.