Yeah, IE *is* hiding the 500 error. The example I posted to the list with
the string "JRun Servlet Error" in the title is what I see when I actually
look at the bare response rather than IE's display.

Thanks,
Conan

At 05:15 PM 3/23/2004, you wrote:
>You may be doing this already, but ANYTIME you are using IE and get a 500
>Internal Server Error, you should check out the page with another browser.
>IE often HIDES error messages that are the true cause of a 500 Internal
>Server Error message.
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Conan Saunders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 11:42 AM
>   To: CF-Talk
>   Subject: customizing JRun servlet 500 error page
>
>
>   Under CFMX 6.1 on IIS6, if I request a URL with a query string containing
>   an invalid URL character encoding, I get a 500 Internal Server Error
>   response back from JRun. For example, requesting this:
>
>   >page.cfm?test=%zz
>
>   produces the response:
>
>   ><head><title>JRun Servlet Error</title></head><h1>500 null</h1><body>
>   ></body>
>
>   I know that %zz is an invalid character encoding--I'm purposefully trying
>   to break my app's interface with bad inputs, and then get all errors
>   properly funnelled into my own error handler. Where/how can I modify the
>   error handler that is producing this response? I've poked around in
>   /CFusionMX/wwwroot/WEB-INF/web.xml, and I see the following two entries,
>   but they don't appear to correspond to the error I'm getting back.
>
>   ><error-page>
>   >         <exception-type>java.lang.Throwable</exception-type>
>   >         <location>/WEB-INF/exception/java/lang/Exception.cfm</location>
>   ></error-page>
>   ><error-page>
>   >         <error-code>500</error-code>
>   >         <location>/WEB-INF/exception/java/lang/Exception.cfm</location>
>   ></error-page>
>
>   I also looked at the custom error pages in IIS, but since the content
>being
>   returned contains the string "JRun Servlet Error" I assume this is coming
>   from JRun rather than IIS.
>
>   Thanks,
>   Conan
>
>
>
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