Re: More detailed error message for 403 forbidden.
- From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 28, 2013, 18:41 UTC
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- <20130328184120.GQ28148@google.com>
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- <20130328183601.GA11914@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
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> 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