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Jazz: /* Open Questions */

2007-08-14T13:30:41Z

Open Questions

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	** [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.3 402 Payment Required]		** [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.3 402 Payment Required]
	** [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.4 403 Forbidden]		** [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.4 403 Forbidden]
			** [http://www.bodhost.com/web-hosting/index.php/2007/08/10/http-error-codes/ HTTP Status Code Information]
	** ...		** ...

Evan: It's not just about login errors, they're just the easiest to generate

2007-07-18T04:28:47Z

It's not just about login errors, they're just the easiest to generate

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	** [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.4 403 Forbidden]		** [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.4 403 Forbidden]
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			I used login errors just because they were easy to generate (see note above). It's actually kind of hard, as a user of these services, to generate a database connection error. Form validation errors are a little easier; I used an example from Paypal. I can go back and try to make some other errors happen, if you like, too.

			I think that, first of all, many sites ''don't'' return a 4xx or 5xx error code when something goes wrong; they return 200 with an HTML error message as part of the content (often a very small part of the content, wrapped with the site's "skin" of header, footer, and navigational HTML). I think there's a case to be made that the response for a POSTed form with a mis-formatted phone number in it should have a status code of 400 or 409, but that's simply not how most Web sites work.

			I also think that even if some Web site is perfectly RESTful and uses the correct HTTP status messages religiously, there's still some value in a ''specific'' section of the resulting page that defines the actual error. --[[User:Evan\|Evan]] 21:28, 17 Jul 2007 (PDT)

	== See Also ==		== See Also ==

	* [[error-message-brainstorming\|error message brainstorming]]		* [[error-message-brainstorming\|error message brainstorming]]

DerrickPallas at 16:31, 14 July 2007

2007-07-14T16:31:32Z

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	<pre><div class="yregertxt"><strong>Invalid ID or password.</strong><br> Please try again.</div></pre>		<pre><div class="yregertxt"><strong>Invalid ID or password.</strong><br> Please try again.</div></pre>

			== Open Questions ==
			* How is this significantly different than the plethora of HTTP status codes? Most of the examples currently on this page are just failed logins. [[User:DerrickPallas\|DerrickPallas]] 09:31, 14 Jul 2007 (PDT)
			** [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.2 401 Unauthorized]
			** [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.3 402 Payment Required]
			** [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.4 403 Forbidden]
			** ...

	== See Also ==		== See Also ==

	* [[error-message-brainstorming\|error message brainstorming]]		* [[error-message-brainstorming\|error message brainstorming]]

Evan: error brainstorming

2007-06-27T02:28:05Z

error brainstorming

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	== See Also ==		== See Also ==

			* [[error-message-brainstorming\|error message brainstorming]]

Evan: Yahoo failed login

2007-06-24T18:23:23Z

Yahoo failed login

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	<pre><p class="error">Sorry, the member name and password		<pre><p class="error">Sorry, the member name and password
	you entered do not match. Please try again.</p></pre>		you entered do not match. Please try again.</p></pre>

			* [http://www.yahoo.com/ Yahoo] failed login

			<pre><div class="yregertxt"><strong>Invalid ID or password.</strong><br> Please try again.</div></pre>

	== See Also ==		== See Also ==

Evan: Technorati login error

2007-06-24T18:16:53Z

Technorati login error

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	Username and password do not match. (You provided XXXXXXXXXX)		Username and password do not match. (You provided XXXXXXXXXX)
	</div></pre>		</div></pre>

			* [http://www.technorati.com/ Technorati] login error

			<pre><p class="error">Sorry, the member name and password
			you entered do not match. Please try again.</p></pre>

	== See Also ==		== See Also ==

Evan: Google login error

2007-06-24T18:13:00Z

Google login error

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	== Examples ==		== Examples ==

			Note that many of these examples are failed logins; they're just the easiest kind of error to generate.

	* [http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] failed login		* [http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] failed login
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	<p>Some required information is missing or incomplete. Please correct your entries and try again.</p>		<p>Some required information is missing or incomplete. Please correct your entries and try again.</p>
	<ul><li>Please enter an amount greater than zero.</li></ul>		<ul><li>Please enter an amount greater than zero.</li></ul>
			</div></pre>

			* [http://www.google.com/ Google] apps login error

			<pre><div class="errormsg" id="errormsg_0_Passwd">
			Username and password do not match. (You provided XXXXXXXXXX)
	</div></pre>		</div></pre>

	== See Also ==		== See Also ==

Evan: pre tags (doh!)

2007-06-24T18:07:55Z

pre tags (doh!)

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	* [http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] failed login		* [http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] failed login

	<div class="errorbox">		<pre><div class="errorbox">
	<h2>Login error:</h2>		<h2>Login error:</h2>
	Incorrect password or confirmation code entered. Please try again.		Incorrect password or confirmation code entered. Please try again.
	</div>		</div></pre>

	* [http://www.wordpress.com/ WordPress], failed to enter required fields in comment		* [http://www.wordpress.com/ WordPress], failed to enter required fields in comment

	<p>Error: please fill the required fields (name, email).</p>		<pre><p>Error: please fill the required fields (name, email).</p></pre>

	* [http://www.paypal.com/ PayPal] , trying to send negative dollars.		* [http://www.paypal.com/ PayPal] , trying to send negative dollars.

	<div class="messageBox error">		<pre><div class="messageBox error">
	<p>Some required information is missing or incomplete. Please correct your entries and try again.</p>		<p>Some required information is missing or incomplete. Please correct your entries and try again.</p>
	<ul><li>Please enter an amount greater than zero.</li></ul>		<ul><li>Please enter an amount greater than zero.</li></ul>
	</div>		</div></pre>

	== See Also ==		== See Also ==

Evan: A few error messages

2007-06-24T18:06:47Z

A few error messages

New page

<h1> Error Message Examples </h1>

== Contributors ==

* [http://evan.prodromou.name/ Evan Prodromou]

== Introduction ==

Examples of error messages published as chunks of readable (X)HTML by Web applications.

== Table of Contents ==

__TOC__

== Examples ==

* [http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] failed login

<div class="errorbox">
<h2>Login error:</h2>
Incorrect password or confirmation code entered. Please try again.
</div>

* [http://www.wordpress.com/ WordPress], failed to enter required fields in comment

<p>Error: please fill the required fields (name, email).</p>

* [http://www.paypal.com/ PayPal] , trying to send negative dollars.

<div class="messageBox error">
<p>Some required information is missing or incomplete. Please correct your entries and try again.</p>
<ul><li>Please enter an amount greater than zero.</li></ul>
</div>

== See Also ==