On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:11:55PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > One problem is that the content body sent along with the error is not > > necessarily appropriate for showing to the user (e.g., if it is HTML, it > > is probably not a good idea to show it on the terminal). So I think we > > would want to only show it when the server has indicated via the > > content-type that the message is meant to be shown to the user. I'm > > thinking the server would generate something like: > > > > HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden > > Content-type: application/x-git-error-message > > > > User 'me' does not have enough permission to access the repository. > > > > which would produce the example you showed above. > > Actually, isn't the human-readable part of the server response meant > for this kind of thing? I.e. > > HTTP/1.1 403 User 'me' not allowed to accept the repository. In theory, yes. But I don't think that most servers make it very easy to use custom "reason phrases" (that is the rfc 2616 term for them). At least I could not easily figure out how to make Apache do so. You can do so from CGIs, but I think you'd want to customize some of this at the HTTP server level (e.g., overriding 404s with a custom message). There's much better support at that level for custom error documents (e.g., Apache's ErrorDocument). I do not configure http servers very often, though, so I could be wrong about what is normal practice, and what is easy to do. -Peff -- 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