http-client: Improve error reporting.

* guix/http-client.scm (http-fetch): Change message in &message
condition to include URI, CODE, and the reason phrase.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/guix/http-client.scm b/guix/http-client.scm
index cc3acc9587..0090783524 100644
--- a/guix/http-client.scm
+++ b/guix/http-client.scm
@@ -276,7 +276,12 @@ Raise an '&http-get-error' condition if downloading fails."
                               (code code)
                               (reason (response-reason-phrase resp)))
                              (&message
-                              (message "download failed"))))))))))
+                              (message
+                               (format
+                                #f
+                                (_ "~a: HTTP download failed: ~a (~s)")
+                                (uri->string uri) code
+                                (response-reason-phrase resp))))))))))))
 
 
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