I'm using IE 6 SP1 but I found that I have to stuff the page up to
more than 1024 bytes to make the so-called "friendly" error page disappear.
OTOH, I've found a pitfall with IE. It's not enough to click the
"refresh" button to test this. I have to quit it and reopen it again
after every change to my customized error page to make it take effect.
A real pain in the ass!
Robert Graf-Waczenski wrote:
>IE can be a PITA when it comes to error page display... ;-))
>
>Check if your IE is configured with "friendly HTTP error messages". If
>this setting is enabled, IE displays its own "friendly" version of an
>error page and simply skips the server response. To avoid this
>nonsense-like behavior, your error page must be "sufficiently big", i.e.
>the response must be more than a few chars of HTML code, as seems to be
>the case with your page.
>For the fun of it: Try adding HTML comments to your error page and see
>what happens if the amount of them exceeds a threshold value (around 500
>bytes total response size IIRC). Comments are fine for this, it is
>important that the server response size is big enough.
>
>Robert
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Robert Baruch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 4:13 PM
>>To: users@tomcat.apache.org
>>Subject: Problem getting custom 404 error working on 4.1.31
>>
>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I've been scratching my head over this for a few days, and I just
>>can't see what I'm doing wrong. I am running 4.1.31 under JDK 1.4.2.
>>
>>Basically, I've taken the default install of 4.1.31 on Windows. The
>>only difference from default is that I've installed in
>>D:/Tomcat 4.1.31
>>
>>In the conf/web.xml file, I have added this after the welcome-file-
>>list block:
>>
>><error-page>
>> <error-code>404</error-code>
>> <location>/file_not_found.html</location>
>></error-page>
>>
>>I have also put file_not_found.html into webbaps/ROOT. It just looks
>>like this:
>>
>><html>
>><body>
>>There was a problem with your request, please try again
>></body>
>></html>
>>
>>Those are the only changes I have made to the default 4.1.31
>>installation.
>>
>>
>>The problem appears to be that the file_not_found.html page is
>>returned, but with an HTTP 404 status code. I'd like an HTTP 200
>>status code (OK) to be returned.
>>
>>The issue is that when I pull up firefox and try to go to a
>>page that
>>doesn't exist, such as http://127.0.0.1:8080/nonono, I do get my
>>page. But when I pull up IE, the browser is showing its default 404
>>"The page cannot be found" page. I'd just like to see my error text.
>>
>>Any ideas on how to do this?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>--Rob
>>
>>
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