2022-12-17 20:16:10 (UTC-03:00)

Marcel Rodrigues <marcelgmr@gmail.com>

add default error message when HTTP status is not 200

diff --git a/src/app.lua b/src/app.lua
index 9c48a34..1542ddf 100644
--- a/src/app.lua
+++ b/src/app.lua
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ local function new_app(routes)
                 end
             end
         end
-        return "nothing here", 404, "Not found"
+        return "", 404, "Not found"
     end
     return obj
 end

diff --git a/src/http.lua b/src/http.lua
index 1c003d8..40ed167 100644
--- a/src/http.lua
+++ b/src/http.lua
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ local function build_response(data, status, reason, cookies)
         header = "Location: " .. data .. "\n"
     end
     header = header .. build_cookie_data(cookies)
+    -- it's nice to provide a minimal error message by default
+    if status ~= 200 and data == ""  then
+        data = status.." "..reason.."\n"
+    end
     local fmt = "HTTP/1.1 %03d %s\r\n%s\r\n%s"
     return fmt:format(status, reason, header, data)
 end