On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 05:45, Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 18:49, Ilari Liusvaara >>>> <ilari.liusvaara@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> > AFAIK, HTTP errors don't have descriptions printed. >>>> >>>> I don't know if this applies here but HTTP error codes can come with >>>> any free-form \n-delimited string: >>>> >>>> HTTP/1.1 402 You Must Build Additional Pylons >>> >>> And you can also send more detailed description in the *body* (and not >>> only HTTP headers) of HTTP response, though I don't know if git does >>> that. > > turns out all this was moot. It was *because* I was using something > other than "200 OK" that the user was not seeing the message. Ilari's > patch just makes the message *look* better/cleaner, but I still have > to send it out with a "200 OK" status. You can still send it out with a "200 <anything you want here>" if you want to give a warning/error even on 200. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html