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		troupo on June 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Migrating Netflix to GraphQL safely 401 or 403. Why is this a question?

paulryanrogers on June 19, 2023 [–]

Because there may be fields requested correctly alongside some requested incorrectly

troupo on June 19, 2023 | [–]

Outside of very few cases it means the request was incorrect.

And bo one is stopping you from returning a response that contains error details.

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