All error and format handling works over REST except searching.

Searching operates on multiple instances, and I have not
yet figured out how we should handle converting multiple
instances to a given format -- we can't use the instance
method (e.g., to_yaml), because it would be on Array
instead of the class we're operating on.  That would work
for yaml, but not, for instance, for xml.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/network/http/mongrel/rest.rb b/lib/puppet/network/http/mongrel/rest.rb
index d6c2e4679..d265dde86 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/network/http/mongrel/rest.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/network/http/mongrel/rest.rb
@@ -49,7 +49,15 @@ class Puppet::Network::HTTP::MongrelREST < Mongrel::HttpHandler
 
     # produce the body of the response
     def set_response(response, result, status = 200)
-        response.start(status) do |head, body|
+        args = [status]
+
+        # Set the 'reason' (or 'message', as it's called in Webrick), when
+        # we have a failure.
+        if status >= 300
+            args << false << result
+        end
+
+        response.start(*args) do |head, body|
             body.write(result)
         end
     end