From 95b2b86487afa0674ba23690d5f0efe56c417eb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noah Levitt <nlevitt@archive.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:41:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] better error message for bad WARCPROX_WRITE_RECORD request

---
 setup.py              | 2 +-
 warcprox/warcproxy.py | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 912d7ed..bbaa5d6 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ except:
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='warcprox',
-        version='2.2.1b2.dev118',
+        version='2.2.1b2.dev119',
         description='WARC writing MITM HTTP/S proxy',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox',
         author='Noah Levitt',
diff --git a/warcprox/warcproxy.py b/warcprox/warcproxy.py
index 3331221..12aac74 100644
--- a/warcprox/warcproxy.py
+++ b/warcprox/warcproxy.py
@@ -311,7 +311,10 @@ class WarcProxyHandler(warcprox.mitmproxy.MitmProxyHandler):
                 self.server.recorded_url_q.put(rec_custom)
                 self.send_response(204, 'OK')
             else:
-                self.send_error(400, 'Bad request')
+                self.send_error(400, message='Bad request', explain=(
+                    'Bad request. WARC-Type, Content-Length, and Content-Type '
+                    'request headers required for WARCPROX_WRITE_RECORD '
+                    'request.'))
 
             self.end_headers()
         except: