Re: More detailed error message for 403 forbidden.

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

One problem is that the content body sent along with the error is not
necessarily appropriate for showing to the user (e.g., if it is HTML, it
is probably not a good idea to show it on the terminal). So I think we
would want to only show it when the server has indicated via the
content-type that the message is meant to be shown to the user. I'm
thinking the server would generate something like:

   HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
   Content-type: application/x-git-error-message

   User 'me' does not have enough permission to access the repository.

which would produce the example you showed above.

Actually, isn't the human-readable part of the server response meant
for this kind of thing?  I.e.

	HTTP/1.1 403 User 'me' not allowed to accept the repository.