From b6f6bd1a26c4b7e45ebb91869e064088da1ef89a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Slive Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 02:17:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] At long last, document the MSIE "friendly error message" issue. I was very diplomatic here. I was tempted to use the apache bully-pulpit to berate MS over this arrogant mis-feature, but I restrained myself. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@95558 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- docs/manual/mod/core.html.en | 8 ++++++++ docs/manual/mod/core.xml | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/core.html.en b/docs/manual/mod/core.html.en index 482a376e01..f76cfdd716 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/core.html.en +++ b/docs/manual/mod/core.html.en @@ -447,6 +447,14 @@ in case of an error

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Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) will ignore server-generated + error messages when they are "too small" and substitute its own + "friendly" error messages. The size threshold varies depending on + the type of error, but in general, if you make your error document + greater than 512 bytes, then MSIE will show the server-generated + error rather than masking it. More information is available in + Microsoft Knowledgebase article Q294807.

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Prior to version 2.0, messages were indicated by prefixing them with a single unmatched double quote character.

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