Re: Re: why do we not set http 500 for errors when the display_error is enabled

Andrea Faulds wrote (on 25/06/2014):

On 25 Jun 2014, at 15:32, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:

I see. I assume this is related to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294807 where by default IE shows pretty but generic message for non-2xx messages if the response content length is less than or equal to a specific threshold(512 bytes for 500 errors for example). I don't think that it was a good idea to patch our error handling for the sake of an usability feature only present in one browser.

Don’t other browsers do this as well? I believe Chrome and Firefox do, at least for 404 errors.

Firefox and Chrome only show the default message if the response length is ZERO bytes. Even the 26-byte response generated by empty content going through gzip buffering appears to be enough for them both to show the "real" output (in that case, a blank page). So it really is just IE that has this notion of the error message having to be "long enough". -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]