On Dec 21, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Will Nordmeyer wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmik...@vmware.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 21, 2012, at 7:35 AM, Will Nordmeyer wrote:
>> 
>>> At long last, I have tomcat configured, I have revoked certificates to
>>> test with…
>> 
>> Nice!
>> 
>>> my question today...
>>> 
>>> When I try using a revoked certificate, I get the lovely and
>>> meaningful "page cannot be displayed."
>> 
>> What browser are you using?  This sounds like the generic IE message.
>> 
>>> So it is properly denying
>>> access - but it doesn't provide appear to provide any other feedback
>>> to the browser.
>> 
>> Tomcat should be returning some HTTP error code like 400 Bad request, 401 
>> Unauthorized or 403 Forbidden.  If your browser is masking it, you can see 
>> exactly what is returned by looking at the access log.  You can then 
>> override that code and provide a custom error page (like Twitter's Fail 
>> Whale).  See the <error-page> tag in web.xml for more details.
>> 
>> One note about this.  If you are using IE, your custom error page has to be 
>> over a certain size or IE will still continue to display it's generic 
>> messages.  I believe it's 512 bytes.
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
> Thanks Dan - which access log should I look at?  all of the tomcat
> logs don't show anything.  I've got it configured with APR & TCNATIVE

Mark and Cédric are right.  

Ignore my post, sorry about sending you down the wrong path.

Dan


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