On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Jeff King wrote:
3. Open a browser and say "Ah, I see. A captive portal".
We should already be doing that. Adding more support could make step 3 a
little nicer, but like I said, I'd be more interested in seeing a real case
first. It may even be a feature that would be more appropriate to curl
(which git builds on for http access).
We're already discussing the 511 in the curl camp as well, but with even more
sighs and hands in the air. 511 is clearly intended for HTML-understanding
user agents and curl is not one of those. IMHO, curl will remain to simply
help users to figure out that it is 511 and leave it at that.
As a git user, I would probably be very surprised if using 'git' suddenly
caused by browser to pop up a captive portal login. I would prefer git to
instead properly explain to me that is being the victim of a 511 and what I
should do to fix it.
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