Would it be possible for GAE to display user-friendly error pages to users?
Right now, if a hosted app fails to execute (for whatever reason) GAE sends out a HTTP 500 error. This error page consists of the following words: "Server Error: The server encountered an error and could not complete your request. If the problem persists, please report (http:// code.google.com/appengine/community.html) your problem and mention this error message and the query that caused it." While developers understand that message, it is not user-friendly, and doesn't report the correct action for the user to take. If my organization's app fails, I want the user to report the failure directly to my organization, not to a general Google mailing list. What I'd like to see is a more user-friendly error page; perhaps you could write something along the lines of "We're sorry, but your request has encountered a problem. Please email us (email address here) to let us know." And then put the app owner's email address (or Twitter/Facebook/etc account name) as a clickable link. Or you could allow us to specify a static page to serve up whenever a failure occurs. Amazon S3 does something similar, where you can specify a static page for 404 errors. Or even just allow us to put in a redirect url; if a 500 error occurs, GAE could reply with a Moved Temporarily code and redirect to the redirect url. While we all hope and aim to build web sites with no downtime, errors do happen occasionally, and this would be a huge help in the UI/UX department. Thanks for your time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
