Re: meaningful error messages in http

2010-12-08 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Curley, John john.cur...@windriver.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Johan Corveleyn [mailto:jcor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:36 PM To: Nick Stokes Cc: Andy Levy; users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: meaningful error

Re: meaningful error messages in http

2010-12-08 Thread Nick Stokes
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Johan Corveleyn jcor...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Most users don't know (or don't care) about HTTP error codes. And I bet 99.9% of svn users don't know what an OPTIONS request is (and they certainly don't care). Cheers, Couldn't have said it better... On

meaningful error messages in http

2010-12-07 Thread Nick Stokes
Hi all, I am serving our repositories over https, using Apache 2.2, via mod_dav_svn, also using mod_authz_svn for per directory access control. Most users find the error messages cryptic (when there is a permission related error on checkout, commit, so on...) and I am wondering if there is a

Re: meaningful error messages in http

2010-12-07 Thread Andy Levy
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:59, Nick Stokes randomaccessitera...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am serving our repositories over https, using Apache 2.2, via mod_dav_svn, also using mod_authz_svn for per directory access control.  Most users find the error messages cryptic (when there is a

Re: meaningful error messages in http

2010-12-07 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Nick Stokes randomaccessitera...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Andy Levy andy.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:59, Nick Stokes randomaccessitera...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am serving our repositories over https, using

RE: meaningful error messages in http

2010-12-07 Thread Curley, John
-Original Message- From: Johan Corveleyn [mailto:jcor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:36 PM To: Nick Stokes Cc: Andy Levy; users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: meaningful error messages in http On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Nick Stokes randomaccessitera