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buda@lemmy.ml
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Serious Answer: This is a Jerboa issue. Lemmy is written in Rust. The error message is a Java error which is what native Android apps use.

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Morcyphr@lemmy.one
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If it’s Jerboa/Android app issue, why do I get JSON errors using Lemmy on my desktop PC with Firefox? Forgive me if this is a dumb question, I have very little programming knowledge.

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nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de
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No, this is a lemmy issue. The API specification specifies a JSON response, and the server randomly provides HTML, this is a bug in the server. I agree that Jebora should retry in the case of a network failure (timeout, 4xx staus codes…) but it should not have to retry in a case of a server that is not folowing the standard.

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mc1472@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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lemmy does not return 502 error codes because 502 means “bad gateway” and lemmy is not acting as a gateway, nginx is. An nginx sends the html. All apps should check the status code for codes like this one that don’t come from apps.

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MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.ca
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No, it’s probably when the app is expecting a json but the server returns an html, which usually happens in case of 502 errors.

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barsoap@lemm.ee
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You really shouldn’t be expecting any content type when you get any code but a 200. If anything you should expect HTML, then, possibly plain text but that’s a subset (given a loose enough definition of html).

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Serinus@lemmy.ml
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I think it’s both, actually. Lemmy is often giving html where json is expected, and Jerboa isn’t handling the error well.

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nseguin@lemmy.ml
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Well, what should Jerboa do? Pretend it received content?

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Atemu@lemmy.ml
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Take it as an error, tell the user about it and then retry with exponential back-off.

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entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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It should display a human-readable error message instead of the raw one.

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usernotfound@lemmy.ml
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🤔 The server spits out html when it cannot reach the backend. So one could argue it’s a configuration issue because the admin didn’t provide enough capacity / didn’t set up a proper generic json error for backend failures.

FWIW, Liftoff doesn’t handle these super gracefully either.

At any rate I think it’s kinda awesome that we get to witness these kinds of infancy problems.

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