Bug 729780

Summary: Candlepin returns 403 instead of 404 for superadmin
Product: [Community] Candlepin Reporter: Andrew Edwards <aedwards>
Component: candlepinAssignee: Bryan Kearney <bkearney>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: John Sefler <jsefler>
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Version: 0.5CC: jmolet, tpfromme, wpoteat
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trace from the 403 error none

Description Andrew Edwards 2011-08-10 19:32:51 UTC 
Description of problem:
Candlepin will return a 403 "insufficient permissions" error instead of a 404 for the super admin user if the resource it is looking for doesn't exist.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.4.10

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. issue a request to candlepin for a owner that doesn't exist http://<url_to_candlepin>/candlepin/owners/bogusowner
  
Actual results:
403 "insufficient permissions"

Expected results:
404 "not found"

Additional info:
Comment 1 Andrew Edwards 2011-08-10 19:39:44 UTC 
Created attachment 517680 [details]
trace from the 403 error
Comment 2 Bryan Kearney 2011-08-17 13:34:43 UTC 
Fixed in 30caf1ecfb3c73d721ccc0fe3346ec4ce25d2ee6 in master candlepin.
Comment 3 J.C. Molet 2011-08-18 18:08:43 UTC 
Looks like the correct error message shows now:

[jmolet@jmolet ~]$ curl -k -u admin:admin GET https://mgmt5.rhq.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com:8443/candlepin/owners/bogusowner | json_reformat

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: GET; Cannot allocate memory
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    64  100    64    0     0    201      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   260

{
    "displayMessage": "Owner with id bogusowner could not be found"
}




candlepin: "version": "0.4.10"