On Thu, 07 Nov 2002, Benjamin Coates wrote:

> If IE is set to "show friendly HTTP error messages" it will replace the 
> server-supplied error message with IE's if the message the server gives is 
> smaller than a certain size. (512 bytes for 404 on my XP system; it's listed 
> in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet 
> Explorer\Main\ErrorThresholds).  I think most of our error messages are larger 
> than this already, but if we pad them out to be large enough it shouldn't be a 
> problem.
> 
> I haven't tested this yet, but it's documented at 
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q218155&;

Hmm, I wasn't aware of that behavior.  Ok, that renders my arguments
moot (barring testing)

--Dan

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