Bug 235281 – Return 404 instead of 500 on unknown xml.

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Bug 235281 - Return 404 instead of 500 on unknown xml.

Summary:	Return 404 instead of 500 on unknown xml.

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Network
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	RHN/Backend (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rhn500
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bryan Kearney
QA Contact:	John Sanda
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Blocks:	239809
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Reported:	2007-04-04 16:02 EDT by James Bowes
Modified:	2013-01-10 04:52 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	5.0.2
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Last Closed:	2007-07-25 11:14:42 EDT
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Description James Bowes 2007-04-04 16:02:22 EDT

If someone requests a url we don't know about under our xmlrpc hierarchy, RHN
will raise an unhandled exception and 500. Instead, we should catch the
exception and return 404.

Comment 1 James Bowes 2007-05-22 13:25:26 EDT

RHN wasn't returning 500 already. The fix as implemented simply logs an
unknownXML error, rather than sending a traceback email.

Comment 2 James Bowes 2007-06-19 10:45:42 EDT

To test:
 - install the content management tools
 - run 'rhn-manage-channel-internal
--server=http://xmlrpc.rhn.webqa.redhat.com/XMLRPC --list --label rhel-5'
 - You'll get an error on the client, but not that no traceback email is sent
 - if debugging is turned up to 4 or higher, a message will be logged in rhn.log

Comment 3 John Sanda 2007-06-22 10:34:34 EDT

Here is what I see when I run the command in Comment 2:

[jsanda@espresso ~]$ rhn-manage-channel-internal
--server=http://xmlrpc.rhn.webqa.redhat.com/XMLRPC --list --label rhel-5
Red Hat Network username: jsanda_qa
Red Hat Network password:
While running 'channel.lookupChannel': caught
<type 'instance'> : Invalid request received (class xmlrpc.channel is not
defined (function = lookupChannel)).

Comment 4 John Sanda 2007-06-22 11:00:44 EDT

Did not find any traceback emails that were sent.

Verified in webqa.

Comment 5 John Sanda 2007-07-23 14:00:22 EDT

Verified in stage.

Comment 6 James Bowes 2007-07-25 11:14:42 EDT

rhn502 released.

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