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Bahaha — Safari Lightly Mocks IE

For whatever reason, I viewed the source of a 404 page I received in Safari — I thought this comment was lightly amusing:

   - Unfortunately, Microsoft has added a clever new
   - "feature" to Internet Explorer. If the text of
   - an error's message is "too small", specifically
   - less than 512 bytes, Internet Explorer returns
   - its own error message. You can turn that off,
   - but it's pretty tricky to find switch called
   - "smart error messages". That means, of course,
   - that short error messages are censored by default.
   - IIS always returns error messages that are long
   - enough to make Internet Explorer happy. The
   - workaround is pretty simple: pad the error
   - message with a big comment like this to push it
   - over the five hundred and twelve bytes minimum.
   - Of course, that's exactly what you're reading
   - right now.

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One Response to “Bahaha — Safari Lightly Mocks IE”

  1. Keili Says:
    January 14th, 2007 at 4:41 am

    Not to be a pedant, but I believe it’s the Apache web server that sends that, rather than the browser itself.

    (But I’m not an expert, I found your blog because I was googling to find out what that was! :P)