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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Yi, EungJun" <semtlenori@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: More detailed error message for 403 forbidden.
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:41:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130328184120.GQ28148@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130328183601.GA11914@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> 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.

Would it make sense to use text/plain this way?

Curious,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-28 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-27  3:29 More detailed error message for 403 forbidden Yi, EungJun
2013-03-28 18:36 ` Jeff King
2013-03-28 18:41   ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2013-03-28 18:45     ` Jeff King
2013-03-31  9:17       ` Yi, EungJun
2013-03-28 19:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-28 20:18     ` Jeff King

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