[Catalyst] "or die" replacement?

[Matt S Trout]

Steven Hilton wrote:
> On 3/16/06, apv <apv at sedition.com> wrote:
>> And I should have said:
>> On Thursday, March 16, 2006, at 10:56  AM, apv wrote:
>>> My main cat project is dying with codes right now, e.g., "RC_503:
>>> Database cannot be reached," if there is a \bDBI\b in the
>>> $c->error(s) and sending email to the dev (via a config file
>>> address) with the Email plugin.
>> And giving a pretty site formatted error page and providing the
>> error chain if debug is on, otherwise just giving the general
>> http status info: "404: resource not found" etc.
> 
> Be careful of that. A full perl stack trace includes method
> parameters, and that may include sensitive information, like database
> connection information, including a password. You might not want the
> world to see that.

Right, but he did say "if debug is on". Which you wouldn't want to be doing on 
your live site, for performance if nothing else.

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