Currently, CMs raise inconsistent errors from RequestHandles. We seem to have agreed to change the errors raised by RequestHandle to NotImplemented (for bad handle types) and InvalidHandle (for bad identifiers). My 'invalidhandle' branch implements this in Gabble.
Fixed in 0.7.19
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