Wed - July 13, 2005

New feature


A clever one, that is


Yesterday sonyericsson.com was down for a few minutes and instead of homepage I got indirected to a page with the message above. Here is the copy:

[...] Server is temporarily unavailable [...]

- Unfortunately, Microsoft has added a clever new
- "feature" to Internet Explorer. If the text in
- an error's message is "too small", specifically
- less than 512 bytes, Internet Explorer returns
- its own error message. Yes, you can turn that
- off, but *surprise* it's pretty tricky to find
- buried as a switch called "smart error
- messages" That means, of course, that many of
- Resin's error messages are censored by default.
- And, of course, you'll be shocked to learn that
- IIS always returns error messages that are long
- enough to make Internet Explorer happy. The
- workaround is pretty simple: pad the error
- message with a big comment to push it over the
- five hundred and twelve byte minimum. Of course,
- that's exactly what you're reading right now.

Posted Wed - July 13, 2005 at 12:50 PM
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