Answer 1

Not really. It is not recommended to show the way your app works from behind to the client. Mainly for security reasons. Your stacktrace shows all the objects being called, methods and if compiled with debug info, even lines. That's too much information for the client, it is ok to have it on the server.

This among SQL injection, Cross side script and others that I cannot remember, improper exception handling is a security vulnerability.

EDIT: Here are other vulnerabilities ( although I don't see this one listed :( )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerability_(computing)

Answered by: Lenny796 | Posted: 24-02-2022

Answer 2

The client only needs to know hat it needs to know. In alot of cases it perfectly fine to not show any stacktraces on your client. Your users should get clear error messages but dont care about a stacktrace.

For debugging purposes a stacktrace is generally lost anyway, application gives errors, users restart it and gone is any excpetion, so if you need to know the errors use a logging framework.

Answered by: Alissa300 | Posted: 24-02-2022

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