plone / plone/plone.restapi

Inexistent 403 responses in a plone.restapi GET call to content

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Description

While authenticated, you ask for a content that the user do not have permissions, Zope answers Unauthorized, instead of a Forbidden.

I don't know if that's a regression for Plone 5.2, since it's using the WSGI stack.

It has more to do with p.rest than p.restapi, I will open this one to have the issue in sight.

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the authenticated GET request described in plone.restapi, then compare the permission response through p.rest and the WSGI stack. Confirm the expected behavior for content the user cannot access: the request should return Forbidden (403) rather than Unauthorized.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
api, backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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