pereinar 2002/06/03 09:09:45
Modified: src/docs/tutorials Changes.pod
src/docs/tutorials/browserbugs browserbugs.pod
Log:
Added note about too short Error responses in IE, relative to this discussion:
http://mathforum.org/epigone/modperl/praibryrghin
Submitted by: Jonathan M. Hollin, Igor Sysoev
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=head1 ...
-*
+* browserbugs::browserbugs: Added discussion of length of error
+ responses and how it's handled by IE, in relation to this
+ discussion:
+ http://mathforum.org/epigone/modperl/praibryrghin [Per Einar]
=head1 Wed May 29 12:41:24 SGT 2002
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See L<Publishing Port Numbers other than
80|guide::config/Publishing_Port_Numbers_other_than_80>.
+=head1 Internet Explorer disregards your ErrorDocuments
+
+Many users stumble upon a common problem related to MS Internet
+Explorer: if your error response, such as when using C<ErrorDocument
+500> or C<$r-E<gt>custom_response>, is too short (which might often be
+the case because you aren't very inspired when writing error
+messages), Internet Explorer completely disregards it and replaces it
+with its own standard error page, even though everything has been sent
+correctly by the server and received by the browser.
+
+The solution to this is quite simple: your content needs to be at
+least 512 bytes. Microsoft describes some solutions to this I<problem>
+here: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q294/8/07.ASP
+. The easiest solution under Perl is to do something like this:
+
+ # write your HTML headers
+ print "<!-- ", "_" x 513, " -->";
+ # write out the rest of your HTML
+
+Effectively, your content will be long enough, but the user won't
+notice any additional content. If you're doing this with static pages,
+just insert a long enough comment inside your file to make it large
+enough, which will have the same effect.
+
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