Item2158: AccessControlException caught as Error::Simple

... which then is rendered as an text/plain message in the browser and a 500 internal server error.

By accident I found out that replacing

        use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
        $SIG{__DIE__} = \&CGI::Carp::confess;

with

        require Carp;
        $SIG{__DIE__} = \&Carp::confess;

cures the problem. For some reason a throw AccessControlException is caught as an Error::Simple later in UI.pm ... for no apparent reason. It might be related to a strange version of CPAN:CGI::Carp on the hosting service that I used. Now someone else on #irc had the same problem...so it is not me ... this time.

-- MichaelDaum - 25 Sep 2009

There are no reliable instructions for how to reproduce this, nor is there any indication where this change has to be made, and the code has changed quite a bit since it was reported, so marking as feedback required.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 26 Jun 2010

No follow up and the bug was reported in sep 2009 and as Crawford says the code has changed a lot since

No action required it seems

-- KennethLavrsen - 17 Nov 2010