problem with older browser is : retrieve a working copy of it..... However, http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8942 and the following http://www.clintharris.net/2009/ie-512-byte-error-pages-and-wordpress/, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294807 seems to point in the direction of < 7. Others sites include IE7 just referencing the "friendly error pages" item.
Unfortunately it seems that in IE8 the problem persists (just checked): friendly error page kicks in. However, I'm saying: - the ticket page in rewrite.py is filled with characters already - we add them to the "temporarily down for maintenance" in main.py instead of injecting them on the HTTP() method, that can be (and its being) used also for interacting with non-browser clients. Cons: if anyone is doing raise HTTP(404, 'item not found') it won't display on IE. I'm positive though that if anyone is doing that an error "item not found" is not very much more informative than the "friendly page" of IE, and if it's needed "badly" a custom error page is prepared (and returned) PS: with gzip enabled it doesn't work anyway (meaning right now adding 512 "x" doesn't work). The only trick is resorting to HTTP(404, [something]) to skip the injecting feature.... --
