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From: "Yi, EungJun" <semtlenori@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: More detailed error message for 403 forbidden.
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:17:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFT+Tg-fvp-3s70y5UQH86pp_nu=HRNFye_kbRa7VJSQuv=iLg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130328184530.GA14691@sigill.intra.peff.net>

>
> Maybe. But I would worry somewhat about sites which provide a useless
> and verbose text/plain message. Ideally an x-git-error-message would be
> no more than few lines, suitable for the error message of a terminal
> program. I would not want a site-branded "Your page cannot be found.
> Here's a complete navigation bar" page to be spewed to the terminal.
> Those tend to be text/html, though, so we may be safe. It's just that
> we're gambling on what random servers do, and if we show useless spew
> even some of the time, that would be a regression.
>
> -Peff

I completely agree with you.

And should git client need to add x-git-error-message in Accept header
and/or perhaps language preference in Accept-Language header?

    Accept: x-git-error-message, */*;q=0.8
    Accept-Language: ko,en;q=0.8

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-31  9:18 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
2013-03-28 18:45     ` Jeff King
2013-03-31  9:17       ` Yi, EungJun [this message]
2013-03-28 19:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-28 20:18     ` Jeff King

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