[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11286: Normal User Input Causes Status 500

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#11286: Normal User Input Causes Status 500
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 Reporter:  miqrogroove   |       Owner:           
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  2.9      
Component:  Comments      |     Version:  2.8.4    
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  has-patch
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Comment(by miqrogroove):

 I will concede that anything is better than 500 at this point.  But we are
 still confusing the HTTP and HTML layers.  If the client returns a zero-
 byte string for a "required" field, then that is a completely valid
 response at the HTTP layer, and I think it is inappropriate to throw Bad
 Request for valid requests.  If the client returns an entity omitting form
 fields entirely, then in that case you're at least in a gray area and
 should use 403.

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