Re: Error Replies to POST messages

Looks like my error page is 721 bytes and I'm using 425 for the error code.

Mark Nottingham wrote:
> IE will display their own error page if your error response is smaller
> than a certain size; however, AFAIK that's triggered by size, not
> request method.
>
> What is the status code and content-type you're sending back?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> On 22/07/2008, at 7:56 AM, Michael Kaplan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to filter POST messages seen in Squid that do not follow
>> my application specifications. When a POST is observed that misuses
>> the header, I would like to send a a custom error page to the host
>> which would be displayed in the browser. I've added the appropriate
>> enumeration for the error page as well as the error page definition
>> within Squid. I then added code to the clientProcessRequest function
>> in client_side.cc to detect the erroneous POST, and then followed the
>> convention of generating reply context, set reply to error, etc.
>> Using Wireshark, I was able to verify that the error page was indeed
>> sent to the host, however, IE just displayed a default error page,
>> not showing the custom error page that I generated.
>>
>> Interestingly if i change my code to react to GET instead of POST, my
>> custom error page DOES display properly. So I'm wondering if it is an
>> issue with the POST protocol. Perhaps IE is not expecting HTML in
>> response to a POST?
>>
>> Has anyone encountered or tried such a thing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
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Received on Tue Jul 22 2008 - 20:30:41 MDT