[Web API] Bug: 403 Response with empty body instead of Error Object

NotHamlet — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 09:04:24 GMT

Observed behavior:

As expected, a GET request to the endpoint at https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/artists

receives an HTTP 403 response when the Token in use does not have the necessary Scope (i.e., lacking 'user-top-read' scope)

However, the body of the HTTP response does not contain the expected JSON data -- an Error Object. In fact, the body of the response is empty.

As per the documentation at
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/personalization/get-users-top-artists-and-tracks/#response-format
I expected a JSON-formatted Error Object in the body of the HTTP response.

See Pastebin link for: CLI output from `curl -v` command demonstrating issue.

Note line 22: "< Content-Length: 0"

https://pastebin.com/7YmvDUJu

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[Web API] Bug: 403 Response with empty body instead of Error Object