Awesome. I really appreciate the help. On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, December 26, 2014 9:15:40 AM UTC-5, Mark Billion wrote: >> >> Just two questions for my edification: >> 1. Why did HTTP get grouped into exceptions >> > > By making HTTP an exception, this allows both the framework and app code > to short-circuit a given response at any point and immediately return > something (e.g., you can raise an HTTP exception in a model, and it will > return without executing the controller or view). > > >> 2. Is there a security reason not to catch all non-http exceptions, ie >> except EXCEPTION >> > > I don't think it's necessarily a security issue. It's just that you > usually don't want to catch all exceptions, particularly if your code isn't > doing anything to actually inspect and handle the exception. You could end > up introducing silent failures and subtle bugs. It could be OK to catch all > exceptions if your "except" block then does something with the exception, > such as executing special error handling code or re-raising particular > exceptions. > > Anthony > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/hWvrDzyR49M/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Mark M. Billion 1904 N. Lincoln Wilmington, DE 19806 302.416.2199 -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
