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If I had to guess I would say sometimes when you request something you aren't authorized to see you get a 404 because they don't want you to be able to tell wha
by klysm 6y ago
If I had to guess I would say sometimes when you request something you aren't authorized to see you get a 404 because they don't want you to be able to tell what exists or not without any creds.
- mehrdadn 6y agoSending an email doesn't require "seeing" anything other than whether the server is willing to receive email for that address though, right? Also, that problem occurs due to lack of authorization, not due to authentication failure, right? Authentication failure is a different kind of error to the client—if the server fails to authenticate you, clearly you already know that it's not going to show you anything?