**Backport:** https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/12143
Prevent continued execution of some APIs with error responses that didn't correctly interrupt execution, resulting in bizarre outputs and possibly leaking secure data:
```
> GET /api/v1/repos/search?uid=-2&archived=false HTTP/2
> Host: example.org
> user-agent: curl/7.88.1
> accept: */*
> authorization: bearer ***
>
< HTTP/2 500
< server: nginx
< date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:20:09 GMT
< content-type: application/json;charset=utf-8
< cache-control: max-age=0, private, must-revalidate, no-transform
< x-content-type-options: nosniff
< x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
<
{"message":"","url":"https://example.org/api/swagger"}
{"message":"","url":"https://example.org/api/swagger"}
{"message":"","url":"https://example.org/api/swagger"}
{"message":"","url":"https://example.org/api/swagger"}
{"message":"","url":"https://example.org/api/swagger"}
{"message":"","url":"https://example.org/api/swagger"}
{"message":"","url":"https://example.org/api/swagger"}
{"message":"","url":"https://example.org/api/swagger"}
{"message":"","url":"https://example.org/api/swagger"}
{"message":"","url":"https://example.org/api/swagger"}
{"message":"","url":"https://example.org/api/swagger"}
{"message":"","url":"https://example.org/api/swagger"}
{"message":"","url":"https://example.org/api/swagger"}
{"message":"","url":"https://example.org/api/swagger"}
{"ok":true,"data":[{"id":68,"owner":{"id":1,"login":"mfenniak", ...
```
As these errors only occur on situations that shouldn't be reproducible (minus software bugs), test automation isn't practical.
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### Tests for Go changes
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- I ran...
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### Documentation
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### Release notes
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Co-authored-by: Mathieu Fenniak <mathieu@fenniak.net>
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/12147
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Fenniak <mfenniak@noreply.codeberg.org>
Co-authored-by: forgejo-backport-action <forgejo-backport-action@noreply.codeberg.org>
Co-committed-by: forgejo-backport-action <forgejo-backport-action@noreply.codeberg.org>
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