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I often try to be too clever and write things like this:
% PARENT=3354a44d2fa8d5ba6b8d6b40d2596de2c8292ec1 curl https://perf.rust-lang.org/perf/triage -d "{\"start\": \"$PARENT\"}"The problem is that the above ends up shell-expanding into the equivalent of this:
% curl https://perf.rust-lang.org/perf/triage -d '{"start": ""}'and then the server spins its wheels for a while before finally responding with this:
<html>
<head><title>504 Gateway Time-out</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>504 Gateway Time-out</h1></center>
</body>
</html>Can we do better here? E.g., could we respond with a page that says "the triage script wasn't able to process your request, which, by the way, looked like this: { "start": "" }?
(Obviously its my responsibility to know how to use the shell properly. But the above Gateway time out message makes it a lot harder for me to recognize that the fault definitely lies with how I invoked it.)