1. added a brief brief summary of changes

2. more descriptive exception thrown

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS.xml b/NEWS.xml
index d1d89f6..482e18d 100644
--- a/NEWS.xml
+++ b/NEWS.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
 <news>
+ <version version="0.0.1">
+  <ni>support for 'plain' CGI made fastcgi optional</ni>
+  <ni>portability improvements (compiles on FreeBSD)</ni>
+ </version>
  <version version="0.0" date="January 29th, 2005">
   <ni>Initial release</ni>
  </version>
 </news>
diff --git a/src/cgi_interface.cc b/src/cgi_interface.cc
index ffbd2bf..af5c020 100644
--- a/src/cgi_interface.cc
+++ b/src/cgi_interface.cc
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 #include "kingate/cgi_interface.h"
 #include "kingate/exception.h"
 
 namespace kingate {
 
     bool cgi_interface::has_meta(const string& n) const {
 	return metavars.find(n) != metavars.end();
     }
     const string& cgi_interface::get_meta(const string& n) const {
 	metavars_t::const_iterator rv = metavars.find(n);
 	if(rv == metavars.end())
-	    throw exception_notfound(CODEPOINT,"no such meta-variable");
+	    throw exception_notfound(CODEPOINT,string("no such meta-variable ('")+n+"')");
 	return rv->second;
     }
 
 }