From 06db06f8e3f5810107c370625862ed7fabff088b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricky Ramirez <rram@reddit.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:57:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Validate gold users correctly

Return a 403 Forbidden instead of raising an exception that never gets caught
---
 r2/r2/controllers/validator/validator.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/r2/r2/controllers/validator/validator.py b/r2/r2/controllers/validator/validator.py
index d0def0fb0..4b52af834 100644
--- a/r2/r2/controllers/validator/validator.py
+++ b/r2/r2/controllers/validator/validator.py
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ class VGold(VUser):
     def run(self):
         VUser.run(self)
         if not c.user.gold:
-            raise GoldRequiredException
+            abort(403, 'forbidden')
 
 class VSponsorAdmin(VVerifiedUser):
     """