diff --git a/crates/puffin-client/src/client.rs b/crates/puffin-client/src/client.rs
index 9c220dd5d..0be0b6b3a 100644
--- a/crates/puffin-client/src/client.rs
+++ b/crates/puffin-client/src/client.rs
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ impl RegistryClientBuilder {
 pub struct RegistryClient {
     pub(crate) index: Url,
     pub(crate) extra_index: Vec<Url>,
+    /// Ignore the package index, instead relying on local archives and caches.
     pub(crate) no_index: bool,
     pub(crate) proxy: Url,
     pub(crate) client: ClientWithMiddleware,
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ impl RegistryClient {
     /// Fetch a package from the `PyPI` simple API.
     pub async fn simple(&self, package_name: impl AsRef<str>) -> Result<SimpleJson, Error> {
         if self.no_index {
-            return Err(Error::PackageNotFound(package_name.as_ref().to_string()));
+            return Err(Error::NoIndex(package_name.as_ref().to_string()));
         }
 
         for index in std::iter::once(&self.index).chain(self.extra_index.iter()) {
@@ -187,7 +188,7 @@ impl RegistryClient {
     /// Fetch the metadata from a wheel file.
     pub async fn file(&self, file: File) -> Result<Metadata21, Error> {
         if self.no_index {
-            return Err(Error::FileNotFound(file.filename));
+            return Err(Error::NoIndex(file.filename));
         }
 
         // Per PEP 658, if `data-dist-info-metadata` is available, we can request it directly;
@@ -203,7 +204,7 @@ impl RegistryClient {
         // Fetch from the index.
         let text = self.file_impl(&url).await.map_err(|err| {
             if err.status() == Some(StatusCode::NOT_FOUND) {
-                Error::FileNotFound(file.filename.to_string())
+                Error::FileNotFound(file.filename, err)
             } else {
                 err.into()
             }
@@ -228,7 +229,7 @@ impl RegistryClient {
         url: &Url,
     ) -> Result<Box<dyn AsyncRead + Unpin + Send + Sync>, Error> {
         if self.no_index {
-            return Err(Error::ResourceNotFound(url.clone()));
+            return Err(Error::NoIndex(url.to_string()));
         }
 
         Ok(Box::new(
diff --git a/crates/puffin-client/src/error.rs b/crates/puffin-client/src/error.rs
index 84e438c15..a4bf42303 100644
--- a/crates/puffin-client/src/error.rs
+++ b/crates/puffin-client/src/error.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 use thiserror::Error;
-use url::Url;
 
 use puffin_package::pypi_types;
 
@@ -9,6 +8,9 @@ pub enum Error {
     #[error(transparent)]
     UrlParseError(#[from] url::ParseError),
 
+    #[error("{0} isn't available locally, but making network requests to registries was banned.")]
+    NoIndex(String),
+
     /// The package was not found in the registry.
     ///
     /// Make sure the package name is spelled correctly and that you've
@@ -21,12 +23,8 @@ pub enum Error {
     MetadataParseError(#[from] pypi_types::Error),
 
     /// The metadata file was not found in the registry.
-    #[error("File `{0}` was not found in the registry.")]
-    FileNotFound(String),
-
-    /// The resource was not found in the registry.
-    #[error("Resource `{0}` was not found in the registry.")]
-    ResourceNotFound(Url),
+    #[error("File `{0}` was not found in the registry at {1}.")]
+    FileNotFound(String, #[source] reqwest_middleware::Error),
 
     /// A generic request error happened while making a request. Refer to the
     /// error message for more details.