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Improve error message

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
perl
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start at line 397 of Net/HTTP/Methods.pm and read the surrounding connection and error-handling code to see whether the remote host is available there. Update the error wording to include the host when available, while retaining the existing message when it is not; verify the relevant HTTP error behavior with the repository's tests.

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Description

At line 397 of Net/HTTP/Methods.pm it would help if the error

'Server closed connection without sending any data back'

were to include the host/remote server name, if that's available.

Dominant language
Perl
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Forks
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