Thanks guys, you have pointed me in the right direction. Being a raw cgi
programmer, I have developed methodology for doing things and is sometimes
challenging to 'undo'.
I do have questions regarding using HTTP errors though:
- Does IE display the error page that you designed, or a 'friendly error'?
- Can I pass information into the error page? Like error messages?
Tim
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From: "Joshua Chamas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Tim Pushor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: Best practice?
> John hit this right on, with the only thing to add
> that your "unexpected error" is a server error of code
> 500, which response page you can set with Apache's
> ErrorDocument config, or the $Response->ErrorDocument
> as John mentioned.
>
> --Josh
>
> "John D. Leonard II" wrote:
> >
> > Tim:
> >
> > Joshua can probably answer best, but I can offer a few broad
suggestions:
> >
> > > So upon executing the asp page, I can output one of three
> > > different results:
> > >
> > > 1) Ok - heres the data
> > > 2) Nope - user error
> > > 3) unexpected error occurred
> > >
> > > I would normally code 1) into the asp page in question. If condition
2) is
> > > flagged in the code, can I conditionally <--#include the output
> > > for case 2?
> >
> > I suggest that you get comfortable with the $Response->Include("file",
> > @args) syntax. It allows you to think of include files as subroutines,
with
> > arguments in and return values out. I have also found
> > $Response->TrapInclude to be very cool also.
> >
> > In this case, you can centralize all error processing, including sending
> > email, into a single ASP script called with a $Response->Include or
> > $Response->TrapInclude.
> >
> > > As for 3: I want this page to send email to the site administrator as
well
> > > as give the user a descriptive message, so this functionality should
be
> > > available to all pages. I would probably put it in the global.asa (or
a
> > > PerlModule'd module). In this case, I cannot include an asp page.
> >
> > Take a look at:
> >
> > $Server->Mail, $Server->RegisterCleanUp and $Response->ErrorDocument.
> >
> > Getting used to the ASP model takes a while. However, I have found the
> > transition pleasant and gradual, and once fully adopted, quite
productive!
> >
> > JL
> >
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