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:error in .acl causes all requests to error

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, node.js

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Start by inspecting /test/resources/accounts-acl/tim.localhost/group/test-folder/.acl and uncomment the shown :errors block. Run NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 mocha -g Group to reproduce the failure. Done means the ACL error affects only the referenced group and does not make every request return HTTP 500.

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Description

I might be wrong about this, but I think :error in an .acl should cause an error for only the group it refers to. However, if it is present in a .acl it will cause every request to return 500.

To reproduce enter /test/resources/accounts-acl/tim.localhost/group/test-folder/.acl and uncomment

#:errors
#    a acl:Authorization;
#    acl:accessTo <some-other-file.txt>;
#    acl:agentGroup <group-listing-error.ttl#folks>;
#    acl:mode acl:Read, acl:Write.

Then run NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 mocha -g Group

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