If an http request to a remote git server fails, we show only the http response code, or sometimes a custom message for particular codes. This gives the server no opportunity to offer a more detailed explanation of the reason for the failure, or to give extra advice.
This patch teaches remote-curl to record and display the body content of a failed http response. We only display such responses when the content-type is advertised as text/plain, as it is the most likely to look presentable on the user's terminal (and it is hoped to be a good indication that the message is intended for git clients, and not for a web browser). Each line of the new output is prepended with "remote:". Example output may look like this (assuming the server is configured to display such a helpful message): $ GIT_SMART_HTTP=0 git clone https://example.com/some/repo.git Cloning into 'repo'... remote: Sorry, fetching via dumb http is forbidden. remote: Please upgrade your git client to v1.6.6 or greater remote: and make sure that smart-http is enabled. error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing http://localhost:5001/some/repo.git/info/refs fatal: HTTP request failed For the sake of simplicity, we only record and display these errors during the initial fetch of the ref list, as that is the initial contact with the server and where the most common, interesting errors happen (and there is already precedent, as that is the only place we currently massage http error codes into more helpful messages). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net> --- I took Jonathan's suggestion of just respecting text/plain to signify a message that git can show on the terminal. It is the most sensible content-type to use, I think, but I'm a little worried that random servers may produce totally uninteresting text/plain (e.g., many servers ship with 404 pages that just say "404" again with more useless text). But such pages tend to be text/html, so we may be able to get away with assuming text/plain will be useful. remote-curl.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/remote-curl.c b/remote-curl.c index 93a09a6..4fea94f 100644 --- a/remote-curl.c +++ b/remote-curl.c @@ -151,6 +151,33 @@ static void free_discovery(struct discovery *d) } } +static int show_http_message(struct strbuf *type, struct strbuf *msg) +{ + const char *p, *eol; + + /* + * We only show text/plain parts, as other types are likely + * to be ugly to look at on the user's terminal. + * + * TODO should handle "; charset=XXX", and re-encode into + * logoutputencoding + */ + if (strcasecmp(type->buf, "text/plain")) + return -1; + + strbuf_trim(msg); + if (!msg->len) + return -1; + + p = msg->buf; + do { + eol = strchrnul(p, '\n'); + fprintf(stderr, "remote: %.*s\n", (int)(eol - p), p); + p = eol + 1; + } while(*eol); + return 0; +} + static struct discovery* discover_refs(const char *service, int for_push) { struct strbuf exp = STRBUF_INIT; @@ -176,16 +203,20 @@ static struct discovery* discover_refs(const char *service, int for_push) } refs_url = strbuf_detach(&buffer, NULL); - http_ret = http_get_strbuf(refs_url, &type, &buffer, HTTP_NO_CACHE); + http_ret = http_get_strbuf(refs_url, &type, &buffer, + HTTP_NO_CACHE | HTTP_KEEP_ERROR); switch (http_ret) { case HTTP_OK: break; case HTTP_MISSING_TARGET: + show_http_message(&type, &buffer); die("%s not found: did you run git update-server-info on the" " server?", refs_url); case HTTP_NOAUTH: + show_http_message(&type, &buffer); die("Authentication failed"); default: + show_http_message(&type, &buffer); http_error(refs_url, http_ret); die("HTTP request failed"); } -- 1.8.2.rc0.33.gd915649 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
