retitle 549439 more informative error messages for invalid urls reassign 549439 debbugs thanks
On Sat, 03 Oct 2009, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > I was reviewing what passes for documentation on the use of usertags > [1] to query the bts, via bugs.debian.org/pkgreport.cgi, and started > experimenting in order to find what does & does not actually work, > inspired by the material in [2]. > > I put in this request: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-b...@lists.debian.org;include=i386; > > and got a 500 error. > > I then put almost the same thing (removed the trailing ';') > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-b...@lists.debian.org;include=i386 > > and again got a 500 error. Neither of those are valid selection requests, unfortunatly. What exactly are you trying to do? > So the first issue to report is the 500 errors, as the error message asks. > I may well be abusing the 'include' parameter but surely this could be > handled more gracefully. Right, it should probably produce a slightly more informative error message. Don Armstrong -- You could say to the Universe this is not /fair/. And the Universe would say: Oh it isn't? Sorry. -- Terry Pratchett _Soul Music_ p357 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
