Re: Custom Error Pages

dorayme wrote:
In article <304862.7js.19.1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ed Mullen <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was doing some testing on my site and tested in IE7. It did not display my custom error page. Hmmm. After some searching I found numerous links about this. The Wikipedia article is decent and succinct:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_404

The article excludes IE 7 from this behaviour:

"Internet Explorer (before Internet Explorer 7), however, will not display custom pages unless they are larger than 512 bytes, opting to instead display a "friendly" error page. This default behaviour can be changed under Tools | Internet Options by clicking on the Advanced tab and un-checking the "Show friendly HTTP error messages" check box."

But you had trouble in IE7. You better amend the article, Ed.


Tested in IE7, yes. I made the error files HUGE, like 200Kb. No effect. The only way I could get IE to "respect" the convention was to change the option as described. Perhaps there was som cache involvement but, frankly, should I have to be trouble-shooting this at all?

I am not a Microsoft basher by any means, I actually like and respect their efforts (hell, for all I know I may own MS stock ... sorry, I'd have to dig for that info). Still, this is beyond the pale. Highly negative. I find rising many expletives which would have to be deleted.

Ooooh! Look at that random sig entry below! Cute! Serendipity!!!

Still. What's up with this? Geez. No wonder people hate MS.

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Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
"If it's a hobby to us and a job to you, why are you doing such a shoddy job?" - Linus Torvalds to Microsoft
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