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Bug 22015 - clarify upload by URL failure message for HTTP error codes 401, 403 and 404
clarify upload by URL failure message for HTTP error codes 401, 403 and 404
Status: REOPENED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Uploading (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: design
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Reported: 2010-01-04 21:45 UTC by Derk-Jan Hartman
Modified: 2014-10-11 14:48 UTC (History)
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Description Derk-Jan Hartman 2010-01-04 21:45:47 UTC 
When a URL is not accessible for upload-by-url, you get:

Upload warning
An HTTP error occured: HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden

The latter in big red letters. That error is not particularly userfriendly. First it does not state WHERE the HTTP error occurred. Nor does it explain very well the consequence of the error.

Something like

Upload warning:
File could not be retrieved from url 'theurl', because (server does not allow it|missing file|unreachable server|whatever)
Please try to download the file yourself and then upload the file from your own computer, instead of using the url to upload.

anything more momproof than "HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden" will do however :D
Comment 1 Chad H. 2010-01-04 22:24:52 UTC 
Cf bug 18202.
Comment 2 Bryan Tong Minh 2010-01-04 22:30:36 UTC 
Needs wfMsgExt( 'some-upload-error-message', 'parse', $status->getWikiText() ) in SpecialUpload line 376
Comment 3 Bryan Tong Minh 2010-04-15 08:45:16 UTC 
Fixed in r65043.
Comment 4 Bryan Tong Minh 2010-04-15 10:27:47 UTC 
I seem to have confused two bugs within similar scope. I think that revision actually fixes bug 18234, not this one.
Comment 5 Bryan Tong Minh 2011-05-15 13:06:03 UTC 
We probably only need to handle the common ones, 401, 403 and 404. 404 is easy: "The file at $url could not be found". Can't think of something appropriate for the other ones though.
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