# HG changeset patch
# User Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
# Date 2006-05-16 07:35:38
# Node ID ce67fa312f61d21a1a1686971eb989ce496cf604
# Parent  3dc6f2501dbc03bab8606e06cae1912544679cdc

Catch urllib's HTTPException and give a meaningful error message to the user.
Usually urllib only throws HTTPError exceptions, which already are a subclass
of IOError.


diff --git a/mercurial/httprepo.py b/mercurial/httprepo.py
--- a/mercurial/httprepo.py
+++ b/mercurial/httprepo.py
@@ -103,7 +103,10 @@ class httprepository(remoterepository):
         q.update(args)
         qs = urllib.urlencode(q)
         cu = "%s?%s" % (self.url, qs)
-        resp = urllib2.urlopen(cu)
+        try:
+            resp = urllib2.urlopen(cu)
+        except httplib.HTTPException, inst:
+            raise IOError(None, _('http error while sending %s command') % cmd)
         proto = resp.headers['content-type']
 
         # accept old "text/plain" and "application/hg-changegroup" for now