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Sam S.6
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5 years ago
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Unhelpful error on "sharing/share_folder" API call with malfolrmed path.

When calling the `sharing/share_folder` endpoint with a path that contains disallowed characters, for example that ends with a backslash "\", the endpoint won't return a WriteError (malformed_path) b...
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    Greg-DB
    5 years ago

    Thanks for the report. I'll ask the team to fix up that error handling so it returns a proper error in that kind of case.

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

Thanks for the report. I'll ask the team to fix up that error handling so it returns a proper error in that kind of case.

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