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Testing the HTTP Layer

The booking team had a test for a bad event id. It sent GET /events/abc/seats through MockMvc, expected 400 Bad Request, and passed. The same request, sent to the service running on a real embedded server, received 401 Unauthorized.

Neither result was wrong. The two requests took different paths, because MockMvc is not a server. One step that a real server performs after an error never happens inside MockMvc, and that step was where the 401 came from.

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