Better error message for Blorkmark button

When the user enters the name of a domain that's not one of the ones we manage, the error message is very unhelpful. Let's see if we can do better.

Can't get the address of "ChangeResourceRecordSetsResponse" because the table doesn't have an object with that name.

Improved messages:

Couldn't allocate the name "test13.blorkmark.nest" because there was an error: "Unable to determine service/operation name to be authorized."

Couldn't allocate the name "test13.blorkmark.net" because there was an error: "Tried to create resource record set test13.blorkmark.net., type CNAME but it already exists."

The latter half is the message that's returned to us from Amazon, which is very vague and not very helpful. We try, as usual, to translate it into terms that make sense to the user, but also provide the text of the message so techies can debug, if it doesn't seem like there's a problem with the name.

Parts

s3.route53.createRecord

Posted on Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 9:23 AM by Dave Winer.