This is a problem. How about injecting more characters instead of less. How about an image encoded in ascii?
On Friday, 14 December 2012 13:44:24 UTC-6, Niphlod wrote: > > 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.... > > --
