Howard Miller

If you're stuck, you can download from Github (as a zip - if you don't want to use Git).

For example, latest weekly of Moodle 5.0 - https://github.com/moodle/moodle/archive/refs/heads/MOODLE_500_STABLE.zip

 

The latest "proper" release (5.0.1) thus - https://github.com/moodle/moodle/archive/refs/tags/v5.0.1.zip

TBH... I've just gone with Petr's solution. I up the debugging level at the start of each WS's execute() call. Not pretty but does the job. I (obviously?) indirect through a function so I can turn it off in one place - I have 55 web services and counting.

I did think about writing a new exception but I'm very lazy

I enjoy learning new stuff. But new stuff has a habit of jumping up when I have the least time to deal with it

 

I do have a Computer Science degree but from the dark ages. I mostly understand how little I really know!

Just to recap. They enter the full URL of the course (e.g. https://my.moodle.site/course/view.php?id=99) and with no warnings they get bounced to the *home* page?

That's not what I would expect. A permission issue would simply give an error - so I think something else is going on. I would start by turning Debugging up full in case some messages appear. I would also check the PHP and web server logs to see if there are any clues.

I read this (and didn't understand a lot of it) - https://moodledev.io/docs/5.0/apis/subsystems/routing

If you look at the example, some of that stuff is quite distinctive (e.g. the use). I grepped on some of the strings. There's mountains of hits in various places under lib/. However, the only other place in 4.5 is user/preferences and then courses/ appears in 5.0. I couldn't spot anywhere else. As I say, this is mostly guesswork.