Older versions of IE will override the error page and display an IE error
page is the length is less than 512.
As far as I know it is still relevant to display web2py error tickets on
older IE browsers.
On Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:48:19 UTC-6, howesc wrote:
>
> in http.py there exists this block:
>
> if isinstance(body, str):
> if len(body) < 512 and \
> headers['Content-Type'].startswith('text/html'):
> body += '<!-- %s //-->' % ('x' * 512) # trick IE
>
>
> when i'm using request.restful i don't necessarily want all of those
> X's......would it be ok for me to make a patch that skips this block in a
> restful request? (is this IE hack still relevant?)
>
> thanks!
>
> christian
>
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