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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2016-11-03 19:18:22 +0100
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2016-11-03 19:20:01 +0100
commit82077ef6e49a08b3772d5c82f6e0cfe390e11966 (patch)
treea5567b3cc550d05c5bd45d8c6dc6258bff7ca9ee
parent3665483be7be177dfa6cb608818e04f68f173c53 (diff)
parent8f329f991bc81ddcfb4f51574e2003edde14e996 (diff)
downloadbitcoin-82077ef6e49a08b3772d5c82f6e0cfe390e11966.tar.xz
Merge #9073: Trivial: Add common failure cases for rpc server connection failure
8f329f9 Add common failure cases for rpc server connection failure (instagibbs)
-rw-r--r--src/bitcoin-cli.cpp2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp b/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp
index 2d66448d80..8a2f380e67 100644
--- a/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp
+++ b/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ UniValue CallRPC(const string& strMethod, const UniValue& params)
event_base_free(base);
if (response.status == 0)
- throw CConnectionFailed(strprintf("couldn't connect to server (%d %s)", response.error, http_errorstring(response.error)));
+ throw CConnectionFailed(strprintf("couldn't connect to server\n(make sure server is running and you are connecting to the correct RPC port: %d %s)", response.error, http_errorstring(response.error)));
else if (response.status == HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED)
throw runtime_error("incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword (authorization failed)");
else if (response.status >= 400 && response.status != HTTP_BAD_REQUEST && response.status != HTTP_NOT_FOUND && response.status != HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)