From 2447a7c606b561e568f226fcf43dcbc6f142d836 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samantha <hello@entropy.cat>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 12:32:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Link failed validation limit errors to new docs page (#6210)

Fixes #6194
---
 errors/errors.go | 7 +++++++
 ra/ra.go         | 2 +-
 ra/ra_test.go    | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/errors/errors.go b/errors/errors.go
index 94625d7bbf6..861d54ad177 100644
--- a/errors/errors.go
+++ b/errors/errors.go
@@ -121,6 +121,13 @@ func DuplicateCertificateError(msg string, args ...interface{}) error {
 	}
 }
 
+func FailedValidationError(msg string, args ...interface{}) error {
+	return &BoulderError{
+		Type:   RateLimit,
+		Detail: fmt.Sprintf(msg+": see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/failed-validation-limit/", args...),
+	}
+}
+
 func RejectedIdentifierError(msg string, args ...interface{}) error {
 	return New(RejectedIdentifier, msg, args...)
 }
diff --git a/ra/ra.go b/ra/ra.go
index d918aa4da44..53e2d8f3503 100644
--- a/ra/ra.go
+++ b/ra/ra.go
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ func (ra *RegistrationAuthorityImpl) checkInvalidAuthorizationLimit(ctx context.
 	noKey := ""
 	if count.Count >= limit.GetThreshold(noKey, regID) {
 		ra.log.Infof("Rate limit exceeded, InvalidAuthorizationsByRegID, regID: %d", regID)
-		return berrors.RateLimitError("too many failed authorizations recently")
+		return berrors.FailedValidationError("too many failed authorizations recently")
 	}
 	return nil
 }
diff --git a/ra/ra_test.go b/ra/ra_test.go
index 497628eaf24..1a781df22dd 100644
--- a/ra/ra_test.go
+++ b/ra/ra_test.go
@@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ func TestAuthzFailedRateLimitingNewOrder(t *testing.T) {
 		err := ra.checkInvalidAuthorizationLimits(ctx, Registration.Id,
 			[]string{"charlie.brown.com", "all.i.do.is.lose.com"})
 		test.AssertError(t, err, "checkInvalidAuthorizationLimits did not encounter expected rate limit error")
-		test.AssertEquals(t, err.Error(), "too many failed authorizations recently: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/")
+		test.AssertEquals(t, err.Error(), "too many failed authorizations recently: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/failed-validation-limit/")
 	}
 
 	testcase()
@@ -2115,7 +2115,7 @@ func TestNewOrderCheckFailedAuthorizationsFirst(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 
 	test.AssertError(t, err, "expected error for domain with too many failures")
-	test.AssertEquals(t, err.Error(), "too many failed authorizations recently: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/")
+	test.AssertEquals(t, err.Error(), "too many failed authorizations recently: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/failed-validation-limit/")
 }
 
 // mockSAUnsafeAuthzReuse has a GetAuthorizations implementation that returns