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Why would a server failure 401? The spec seems reasonable to me. This looks like some kind of proxy setup mistake, maybe?
by pkulak 5y ago
Why would a server failure 401? The spec seems reasonable to me. This looks like some kind of proxy setup mistake, maybe?
- kragen 5y agoI haven't asked A., but as I said, I suspect she was reinstalling the server from scratch, and hadn't yet gotten to the part where she restored the database from backups. So all login attempts were failing. I didn't yet realize there was a server problem, myself. I thought Element on my phone was failing and that I was misremembering the password when I tried to log in from the browser. Generally, though, regardless of how it happened, from my perspective it's a security vulnerability if there's anything the server can send that will wipe data from the client. So the spec doesn't seem reasonable to me. I want to use a client that keeps my data safe from server malfunctions, whether accidental or intentional.