What is the difference between <deployment retail = "true"> and debug = "false"?

Question

We have a bunch of websites / applications with debug = "true" in their web.config files.

We want to override this at the server level with retail = "true", as described here

However, these sites still respond to the verb http DEBUG with 200, which is at least one difference.

I would like to know if this is the only one, or whether there are other (possibly more unsafe) consequences of relying on retail = "true"

There is a similar question here, but it does not have a clear answer to the question I ask.

Answer 1

Retail mode definitely disables debug mode. It also disables tracking and sets custom errors - can you see it? Did you have a reboot? How do you submit a debug request?