A MessageFailure indicates an error handling an HTTP message. These include:

• ParsingFailure: indicative of a malformed HTTP message in the request line or headers.
• MalformedMessageBodyFailure: indicative of a message that has a syntactic error in its body. For example, trying to decode { "broken:" as JSON will result in a MalforedMessageBodyFailure.
• InvalidMessageBodyFailure: indicative of a message that is syntactically correct, but semantically incorrect. A well-formed JSON request that is missing expected fields may generate this failure.
• MediaTypeMissing: indiciates that the message had no media type, and the server wasn’t willing to infer it.
• MediaTypeMismatch: indiciates that the server received a media type that it wasn’t prepared to handle.

Logging

If a MessageFailure is not handled by your HTTP service, it reaches the backend in the form of a failed task, where it is transformed into an HTTP response. To guard against XSS attacks, care is taken in each of these renderings to not reflect information back from the request. Diagnostic information about syntax errors or missing fields, including a full stack trace, is logged to the org.http4s.server.message-failures category at DEBUG level.

Customizing error handling

TODO