IE can be a PITA when it comes to error page display... ;-)) Check if your IE is configured with "friendly HTTP error messages". If this setting is enabled, IE displays its own "friendly" version of an error page and simply skips the server response. To avoid this nonsense-like behavior, your error page must be "sufficiently big", i.e. the response must be more than a few chars of HTML code, as seems to be the case with your page. For the fun of it: Try adding HTML comments to your error page and see what happens if the amount of them exceeds a threshold value (around 500 bytes total response size IIRC). Comments are fine for this, it is important that the server response size is big enough.
Robert > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Baruch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 4:13 PM > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Problem getting custom 404 error working on 4.1.31 > > > Hi all, > > I've been scratching my head over this for a few days, and I just > can't see what I'm doing wrong. I am running 4.1.31 under JDK 1.4.2. > > Basically, I've taken the default install of 4.1.31 on Windows. The > only difference from default is that I've installed in > D:/Tomcat 4.1.31 > > In the conf/web.xml file, I have added this after the welcome-file- > list block: > > <error-page> > <error-code>404</error-code> > <location>/file_not_found.html</location> > </error-page> > > I have also put file_not_found.html into webbaps/ROOT. It just looks > like this: > > <html> > <body> > There was a problem with your request, please try again > </body> > </html> > > Those are the only changes I have made to the default 4.1.31 > installation. > > > The problem appears to be that the file_not_found.html page is > returned, but with an HTTP 404 status code. I'd like an HTTP 200 > status code (OK) to be returned. > > The issue is that when I pull up firefox and try to go to a > page that > doesn't exist, such as http://127.0.0.1:8080/nonono, I do get my > page. But when I pull up IE, the browser is showing its default 404 > "The page cannot be found" page. I'd just like to see my error text. > > Any ideas on how to do this? > > Thanks, > > --Rob > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
