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Respond with 403 when features are disabled

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When administrators disabled features and users tried to access them
with the browser, we were responding with a 500 "Internal Server Error"
page, which in my humble opinion was incorrect. There was no error at
all; the server worked exactly as expected.

I think a 403 "Forbidden" code is better; since that feature is
disabled, we're refusing to let users access it.

We could also respond with a 404 "Not found", although I wonder whether
that'll be confusing when administrators temporarily or accidentally
disable a feature.

A similar thing might happen if we responded with a 410 "Gone" code.
Actually this case might be more confusing since users aren't that
familiar with this code.

In any case, all these options are better than the 500 error.
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Javi Martín
2021-06-16 19:52:33 +02:00
parent 7f38f61bc1
commit 7bb7548d00
3 changed files with 46 additions and 2 deletions
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config/application.rb
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@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ module Consul
# in any CONSUL installations
config.active_support.use_authenticated_message_encryption = false
# Handle custom exceptions
config.action_dispatch.rescue_responses["FeatureFlags::FeatureDisabled"] = :forbidden
# Set Time.zone default to the specified zone and make Active Record auto-convert to this zone.
# Run "rake -D time" for a list of tasks for finding time zone names. Default is UTC.
# config.time_zone = 'Central Time (US & Canada)'

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public/403.html Normal file
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@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Error 403 | Forbidden: Access disabled</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">
<style>
body {
background: #065687 url('/errors_bg.jpg');
color: #2E2F30;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
margin: 0;
text-align: center;
}
h1 {
color: white;
font-size: 160px;
line-height: 160px;
margin: 0;
}
h2 {
color: white;
}
div.error {
margin-top: -144px;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
width: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="error">
<h1>403</h1>
<h2>Access to this page has been disabled by the administrators.</h2>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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spec/system/admin/feature_flags_spec.rb
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@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ describe "Admin feature flags", :admin do
visit budget_path(budget)
expect(page).to have_content "Internal server error"
expect(page).to have_title "Forbidden"
visit admin_budgets_path
expect(page).to have_current_path admin_budgets_path
expect(page).to have_content "Internal server error"
expect(page).to have_title "Forbidden"
end
scenario "Enable a disabled participatory process" do