Index: qgswfssourceselect.cpp
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--- qgswfssourceselect.cpp	(revision 13934)
+++ qgswfssourceselect.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -159,6 +159,17 @@
     return 1; //error
   }
 
+  // TODO: test against multiple services and exceptions
+  //
+  // WFS-1.0 specs contain an example of exception response at page 17
+  // That one contains http://www.opengis.net/ogc as a namespace for the ServiceExceptionReport
+  //
+  QDomNodeList exlist = capabilitiesDocument.elementsByTagName( "ExceptionText" );
+  if ( exlist.length() ) {
+    QDomElement ex = exlist.at( 0 ).toElement();
+    QMessageBox::critical( 0, tr( "Error" ), ex.firstChild().nodeValue() );
+    return 1; 
+  }
 
 
   //get the <FeatureType> elements