-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Leo,
On 11/30/12 5:09 PM, Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: >> -----Original Message----- From: Pid [mailto:p...@pidster.com] >> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 3:04 PM To: Tomcat Users List >> Subject: Re: Error page messages >> >> On 30/11/2012 21:00, Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: >>> Are there standardized server responses that one should expect >>> to see >> when dealing with java.lang, javax.servlet and javax.faces >> exceptions that should be displayed to the client? >> >> You mean status codes or error pages? > > Error pages. > >> >> If an exception isn't handled* by the app then it's 500 and a >> stacktrace if you haven't configured a custom error page. Those >> packages probably have a few tens of exceptions that could be >> thrown. >> >> >>> I don't know that I would expect to see any of these on a >>> public website, as I >> am likely not to care what happens on the server I'm browsing, as >> long as the server can recover/redirect. >> >> Catch them at the appropriate point in your code, or configure a >> custom error page. > > And what kind of information does one show the user in a custom > error page? I don't know of any public facing websites, off hand, > that show uncaught exception messages. I was just trying to decide > what I would show, if anything, if I configured a custom error page > for certain types of exceptions, such as java.lang, or > javax.servlet, or javax.faces. How about: web.xml: <error-page> <exception-type>java.lang.Throwable</exception-type> <location>/WEB-INF/uncaught-error.html</location> </error-page> uncaught-error.html: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head><title>Error</title></head> <body> <h1>Error</h1> <p> Aw, crap. </p> </body> </html> You can put anything in there you want, man. If the stack trace seems too ugly for you (it really is, honestly), then replace it with something else. Need some inspiration? Try Google. Or http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/15955/how-to-create-a-useful-500-internal-server-error-page - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlC5MMQACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PC2SwCeNW8Q8enE9m08sq9j6tYVFRX/ csoAniXbINKCbXd1ix+J9Nd3dHo0piLE =EnMx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
