From 2b5107a5be4fb8234014c71187336190237ba19c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Art Cancro <ajc@citadel.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:09:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Handle posting errors a little more elegantly.

---
 webcit-ng/messages.c              |  2 +-
 webcit-ng/static/js/view_forum.js | 15 +++++++--------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/webcit-ng/messages.c b/webcit-ng/messages.c
index b33cdf0c3..a910b1f6a 100644
--- a/webcit-ng/messages.c
+++ b/webcit-ng/messages.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ void dav_put_message(struct http_transaction *h, struct ctdlsession *c, char *eu
 	char response_string[1024];
 
 	if ((h->request_body == NULL) || (h->request_body_length < 1)) {
-		do_404(h);	// Refuse to post a null message
+		do_404(h);			// Refuse to post a null message
 		return;
 	}
 
diff --git a/webcit-ng/static/js/view_forum.js b/webcit-ng/static/js/view_forum.js
index 0e8f36c22..edf0a971b 100644
--- a/webcit-ng/static/js/view_forum.js
+++ b/webcit-ng/static/js/view_forum.js
@@ -237,13 +237,8 @@ function open_reply_box(prefix, msgnum, is_quoted) {
 	+ _("Cancel")
 	+ "</a></span>"
 
-	+ "</span>";							// end buttons on right side
-	if (msg.subj) {
-		replybox +=
-	  	"<br><span class=\"ctdl-msgsubject\">" + "FIXME subject" + "</span>";
-	}
-	replybox +=
-	  "</div><br>"							// end footer
+	+ "</span>"							// end buttons on right side
+	+ "</div><br>"							// end footer
 
 
 	+ "</div>"							// end content
@@ -285,7 +280,11 @@ function save_message(div_name, reply_to_msgnum) {
 				document.getElementById(div_name).outerHTML = "";		// close the editor
 			}
 			else {
-				alert(_("An error has occurred."));	// inelegant but hopefully infrequent
+				error_message = request.responseText;
+				if (error_message.length == 0) {
+					error_message = _("An error has occurred.");
+				}
+				alert(error_message);						// FIXME make this pretty
 			}
 		}
 	};
-- 
2.39.2