Re: mod security and error message displaying

On 9/14/06, Ivan Ristic <ivan.ristic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Any idea why Microsoft did this?

What a good question this is. :)

>
> I believe their intention is to show a "friendly" error message in
> case of a CGI script crash (and thus no output). I seem to recall that
> the IE error message is triggered only of the actual error message is
> to short. Try adding a few hundred bytes to your error page as a HTML
> comment.

Normally if you make the error message >= 512 bytes you should be fine
(use a comment if you want to enlarge it).  *BUT*, each message in IE
has it's own customizable threshhold defined in registry :(

See MS KB article on this registry setting...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/218155/

-B

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