The HTTP Wagons should use Reason-Phrase sent in HTTP Response and use that in 
exception message (at least incorporate it)
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                 Key: WAGON-322
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/WAGON-322
             Project: Maven Wagon
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Tamás Cservenák


The HTTP Wagons should use Reason-Phrase sent in HTTP Response and use that in 
exception message (at least incorporate it).

This would enable MRMs to at least "hint" somewhat Maven users why it's 
responding with some error.

Typical example: Maven users using Nexus (but I believe is true for other MRMs 
too), tend to "forget" about having pull and push URLs different (you usually 
pull from "groups", and push/deploy to actual reposes). With wrong URL, your 
build will fail, and Maven message on CLI will state "server responded with 
code 400" (in case of Nexus, it will respond with Bad Request, since groups are 
read-only).

Usually, the end user (and Maven) have no clue why the request was rejected, 
and user has to start investigating about the problem. On the contrary, the 
server side MRM actually knows very well what the problem is: deploy tried to 
read-only target, redeployment tried but redeploying is forbidden, deploy of a 
snapshot tried to a release repository, etc. All of these results with same 
error code (in case of Nexus): with HTTP 400, but without any explanation shown 
on client side.

If Wagon -- I am not sure about the details -- would somehow incorporate the 
_actual_ Reason-Phrase got from server/MRM, and make Maven display it as part 
of the message about failed build, it would be much-much easier to realize why 
the build failed, it will be told by the MRM who actually rejected the request.

By HTTP/1.1 RFC, the Reason-Phrase is unbound, it might have _any_ content 
(except CR LF), exactly for these cases.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-6

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