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Re:Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages... by jeroenhd on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:09PM (#37091880)
But a 500 isn't the user breaking the server, it's the server being broken before the user ever came in.

Users and client software cannot (or rather, should never) be held responsible for 500 error codes, which "user breaks the server" implies.

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Re:Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages... by bawolff on Friday August 11, 2023 @10:12PM (#37096293)
400 is a client error. 500 is server error. A server error induced by a client action (e.g. triggering an unexpected exception) is still a server error.
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