Right, that's what my issue was.  I managed to get it to always show my
'error' HTML by making sure the <head></head> part of the page was 'pushed'
so that part got to the browser before the error happened.  Now it
consistently shows my friendly error message instead of the 500 message.

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Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Get error 500 instead of my error HTML?


> Shouldn't that throw a 500 error cause its not technically a tango error
> and a database error. Like for example if your trying to put the same
> key in for a primary key it will throw an error and its not a tango
> error but actually from the database itself?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Machin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Get error 500 instead of my error HTML?
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> Do you put the <@clearerrors> in the beginning of the error HTML for the
> DBMS action?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John McGowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 9:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Get error 500 instead of my error HTML?
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>
> > Dave,
> >
> > If you want it to work like that for everybody, then you will need to
> > execute a <@clearerrors>.  Which should clear the error and set the
> > status code back to 200, however, that was a bug with witango when
> they
> > made the error handling "more functional"  @clearerrors wasn't setting
> > the status back to 200.  So in the meantime you can do it yourself by
> > assigning the httpheader with the following code...
> >
> > <@ASSIGN local$httpHeader "HTTP/1.1 200 OK<@CRLF>Content-Type:
> > text/html<@CRLF><@SETCOOKIES><@USERREFERENCECOOKIE><@CRLF><@CRLF>">
> >
> > I haven't tested yet to see if the bug with @clearerrors not setting
> the
> > status to 200 was fixed in 062 or not.  Didn't see it in the readme
> file.
> >
> > Of course if you're the only one who needs to see the code in the
> error
> > results then scotts solution will work just fine for you
> >
> > However I know that not all errors encountered are really errors that
> > warrant a 500 being sent back to the browser.... (that's why I use the
> > @clearerrors tag)
> >
> > /John
> >
> > Scott Cadillac wrote:
> >
> > >Hi Dave,
> > >
> > >The Error handling in v5 has been upgraded to be more functional.
> > >
> > >The "HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error" page you see is actually
> coming
> from
> > >MS Internet Explorer. Witango has simply sent back a proper HTTP
> status
> code
> > >(via IIS) identifying an error.
> > >
> > >In MSIE, go to "Tools / Internet Options... / Advanced tab" and
> toggle
> the
> > >"Show friendly HTTP error messages" setting.
> > >
> > >You should now be able to see your Witango errors. Cheers....
> > >
> > >Scott Cadillac,
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> > >>-----Original Message-----
> > >>From: Dave Machin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >>Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:07 AM
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> > >>Subject: Witango-Talk: Get error 500 instead of my error HTML?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>Sometimes when a database action fails I get IIS's "HTTP 500
> > >>- Internal
> > >>server error" page instead of the error HTML I have
> > >>associated with the DBMS
> > >>action - is this normal? (W2K SP3 - IIS5, WiTango 5).
> > >>
> > >>Dave Machin
> > >>
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