[OSM-talk] History of relation 20773

[Maarten Deen]

On 2012-11-16 11:26, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 16/11/12 09:16, Maarten Deen wrote:
>
>> Can't the API give out some kind of information in such cases? An 
>> XML
>> message of some sort? Now you get nothing.
>
> No you don't, you should be getting "403 Forbidden" meaning that you
> are not allowed to access it.

Hmm, I see now, IE does display that. Firefox (16.0.2) displays an 
empty page. Still, a bit more information would be helpful. A user still 
has to know there was a redaction process and then has to determine if 
this might be the cause.

>> For a user it might well be
>> that the api is malfunctioning. JOSM handles it with an error 
>> message
>> "Authorisation at the OSM server failed. The server reported the
>> following error: ' '".
>> Not really helpful.
>
> It's not my fault if JOSM handles it badly...

Really? ;)

Regards,
Maarten
Maarten