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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: More detailed error message for 403 forbidden.
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:41:20 -0700
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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