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:crystal_ball: The API for searching the Wellcome Collection catalogue.
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Attempting to access restricted files results in a 500 response #803

Open paul-butcher opened 3 months ago

paul-butcher commented 3 months ago

See Slack.

Attempting to fetch a restricted file via https://api.wellcomecollection.org/text/alto/ results in a 500 response.

I do not know whether: a) This should be 401 (i.e. it is caused by an unauthorised user trying to fetch the file and it is currently rightly refusing, but giving the wrong response) b) There is actually something wrong (i.e. an authorised user is trying to fetch the file)

paul-butcher commented 3 months ago

There may be something else at play here. It is unlikely that a user has constructed the URLs I'm seeing by themselves, so are we incorrectly presenting links to restricted content? Perhaps someone has an old version of a page before the restriction was added?