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Please, please, please, PLEASE return error-codes and problem-details.
Here's the RFC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9457.html
Counter argument is that error codes and problem details can be used by attackers to reverse engineer and find exploitable parts of a system.
Within reason anyways
yeah, ofc it should only be a curated set of errors where the consumer can do something about it. unknown errors should just be opaque 500s