Re: [PATCH] Add ERR support to smart HTTP

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 5, 2010, 21:22 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinoEp55C3=hF6-LO5fwn2FpMxBZry-=2B6kvXc1@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 18:49, Ilari Liusvaara
> <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK, HTTP errors don't have descriptions printed.
> 
> I don't know if this applies here but HTTP error codes can come with
> any free-form \n-delimited string:
> 
>     HTTP/1.1 402 You Must Build Additional Pylons

And you can also send more detailed description in the *body* (and not only HTTP headers) of HTTP response, though I don't know if git does that.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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