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authorinstagibbs <gsanders87@gmail.com>2016-11-03 09:56:26 -0400
committerinstagibbs <gsanders87@gmail.com>2016-11-03 12:09:38 -0400
commit8f329f991bc81ddcfb4f51574e2003edde14e996 (patch)
treea07a1be2baf1999a0114e0368be195c9efe15bf6 /src/bitcoin-cli.cpp
parentfcf61b80fa2ce60ee1a806dbf4d4240aa682b879 (diff)
Add common failure cases for rpc server connection failure
Diffstat (limited to 'src/bitcoin-cli.cpp')
-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)