Have you tried testing in Firefox to see if you get the same result.
Internet Explorer may be confusing the issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q294807
"Several frequently-seen status codes have "friendly" error messages
that Internet Explorer 5./x/ displays and that effectively mask the
actual text message that the server sends. However, these "friendly"
error messages are only displayed if the response that is sent to the
client is less than a specified threshold. *For example, to see the
exact text of an HTTP 500 response, the content length must be greater
than or equal to 512 bytes. *"
So you might have to pad out your response with commented html or
something for the message to show.
David Johnson wrote:
Hi all
I've added the following to my web.xml (thanks for the help)
<error-page>
<error-code>500</error-code>
<location>/error.jsp</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/error.jsp</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
<error-code>java.lang.Exception</error-code>
<location>/error.jsp</location>
</error-page>
and I've added a global forward I invoke from "error.jsp" which points to my
tiles def as follows
<forward name="error" path="/page.error" />
the problem is when I cause an error (like stopping the database then trying
to hit it or reloading a page that should cause an error 500), I'm not
seeing my error page.
am I forgetting something?
--
Jason Lea
