error pages and web.xml

[Chong Yu Meng <ch...@cymulacrum.net>]

Greetings !

I'm having problems configuring error pages in Tomcat. I've written a 
servlet called ErrorHandler that should handle any exceptions thrown by 
my servlets. Inside the web.xml of my web application I specified :

<error-page>
   <exception-type>javax.servlet.ServletException</exception-type>
   <location>/ErrorHandler</location>
</error-page>

This does not work, and Tomcat still handles any exceptions thorwn by my 
servlets. However, when I change the configuration to :

<error-page>
   <error-code>500</error-code>
   <location>/500.html</location>
</error-page>

This works. I tested my ErrorHandler servlet alone, and that seems to 
work as well.

My question is : did I do something wrong ? Did I specify the right 
<exception-type> to handle 500 errors ?

I'm using Tomcat 4.1.18, Apache 1.3.27 and IBM Java2 SDK 1.3.1

Any help will be greatly appreciated !

Regards,
pascal chong


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