Requesting CV for non-existing users reveals their non-existence
Issue #1903
resolved
When the user page of a non-existing user is requested a regular page with 0 posts is returned. Thus one can not tell wether the user exists or not. This behavior is different when calling the cv page but should be the same.
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- changed component to webapp
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Are there any news to this? Is this still a crucial bug or is it unimportant?
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Good question. From my point of view, we can fix it but I don't regard it as a "blocker" (hence, I changed the status). My suggestion would be to return 404 for non existing users on all corresponding pages.
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- marked as minor
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- changed status to open
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- changed milestone to 3.6.0
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- changed milestone to 3.7.0
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- changed status to resolved
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#1903and#2613added UserNotFoundException and made StaticViewController ErrorAware. not yet beautiful, but working for now.→ <<cset e5bb9cfedf26>>
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- changed milestone to 3.8.0
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Why is this a problem? There are other ways to find this out, so I don't know why we should invest time changing this behaviour. One could also argue, that the behaviour on the /user/USER page is wrong (404 would be the correct HTTP code).