Till Harbaum / Lists wrote: > Since i'd like to have mosmed do some useful output in case of errors during > the upload process, > it's rather ugly to have to cope with these different cases (despite the fact > that the 404 message > seems to be just the default message of the server and should imho be > changed, anyway). > > I can of course ignore these completely and just do an own clear text message > based on the > return code only. But it's imho nicer to have the sever explain the issue in > plain text as this allows > for more flexibility and e.g. more exact error messages. > > How can this be solved? I'd really prefer simple single line text replies for > all errors, just like in the > 401 case. Any objections? How can this be done? Who can do this?
A single line text message is clearly not appropriate for a 404 caused by using the wrong URL though as we have no idea if that came from a web browser or a program using the API and in the web browser case we want to send an HTML response. In fact it's far more likely that it is a web browser as any program that is sending the wrong URL is presumably only ever going to do so for a short period while it is in development while a web user can type in the wrong URL at any time. To be honest I wouldn't expect a program to look at the body - just the response code and string and the Error header. If you want to improve our error handling though then please do feel free - I'm sure you know where the repository is. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
