Kong / Kong/insomnia

Regression - http error codes and message not displayed properly on the UI

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Description

### Expected Behavior

If an http request fails I expect Insomnia to show the http status code (4xx, 5xx, etc) and the error message in the preview. This used to work but broke recently.

### Actual Behavior

When there is a request failure the http status code is not displayed and an internal error message is shown in the preview. The error message is:
```
message: undefined; stack: Error: message: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '0'); stack: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '0')
at fn0 (eval at S (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/hiddenBrowserWindow-Ci3kk9w5.js:1:664), :12:21)
at eval (eval at S (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/hiddenBrowserWindow-Ci3kk9w5.js:1:664), :22:13)
at S (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/hiddenBrowserWindow-Ci3kk9w5.js:8:25)
at async file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/hiddenBrowserWindow-Ci3kk9w5.js:1:346
at port.onmessage (/Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/preload.js:145:18)
```

Here is a recording of the issue happening when calling an endpoint multiple times until it hits a rate limit (429).

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1503e2ea-6ab0-46fe-b506-9286e35eb417)

And this screenshots show a 500 that doesn't get properly displayed in preview.

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### Reproduction Steps

Make a request that fails.

### Is there an existing issue for this?

- [x] I have searched the [issue tracker](https://www.github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues) for this problem.

### Which sync method do you use?

- [ ] Git sync.
- [x] Insomnia Cloud sync.
- [ ] Local only

### Additional Information

This used to work fine a few releases ago.

### Insomnia Version

11.0.2

### What operating system are you using?

macOS

### Operating System Version

Sequoia 15.4.1

### Installation method

download

### Last Known Working Insomnia version

_No response_

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