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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I had a similar case with some authentication middleware I used that was part of a library.

It would always throw an exception when a user wasn't authenticated instead of just giving me some flag I could check.

Wouldn't have done it that way, but it was okay for an API controller.