ErrorDocument Internal Link

[SSleeper <SS...@iProsperOnline.com>]

Hi, I have a problem, I added

ErrorDocument 404 /nf.cfm

Should work, but it did not in IE, however it did work in NS (Netscape), I
add a .htaccess file to the root, and added

ErrorDocument 404 /nf.cfm.

This too, does the same thing, works for NS, but not IE, IE gets the 404.

Through testing, we found that files over 500K, would work with IE the first
time, but not again till the file was physically replaced. So it appears
that IE can be fouled, at least once, with a speculative 512k file size, but
with it not working after the first time, it does not help alot.

I feel the Apache server is out of wack, with this inconsistant behavour.
IIS runs this config just fine, with any file size, MS talking to MS, but it
can't seem to get around sniffing the 404 from Apache.

I'm running 1.3 on Solaris. I don't think I can use the Redirect_ServerName
syntax, as the first time I put in the directives, the server crashed, I
think that it is for v2.0 Apache.

Any thoughts, this should be an open and close case, but after 50 hours of
banging my head against the wall, I am calling out for some help.

Thanks
Victor Nichols



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Re: ErrorDocument Internal Link

[Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, SSleeper wrote:

> Hi, I have a problem, I added
>
> ErrorDocument 404 /nf.cfm
>
> Should work, but it did not in IE, however it did work in NS (Netscape), I
> add a .htaccess file to the root, and added
>
> ErrorDocument 404 /nf.cfm.
>
> This too, does the same thing, works for NS, but not IE, IE gets the 404.
>
> Through testing, we found that files over 500K, would work with IE the first
> time, but not again till the file was physically replaced. So it appears
> that IE can be fouled, at least once, with a speculative 512k file size, but
> with it not working after the first time, it does not help alot.

I assume you mean 500 bytes rather than 500K.  In fact, MSIE ignores error
messages that are "too small".  This is a browser problem not a server
problem.  The fact that IE goes back to the old error message after the
first time is probably a caching issue.  If not, it is surely another
browser issue.

If you want to see what apache is actually sending (as opposed to what
MSIE is showing you), you can try

telnet yourhost 80
GET /path/to/noexistant/file HTTP/1.0
Host: yourhost[enter][enter]

>
> I feel the Apache server is out of wack, with this inconsistant behavour.
> IIS runs this config just fine, with any file size, MS talking to MS, but it
> can't seem to get around sniffing the 404 from Apache.

There is a certain HTTP header you can send to turn off the MSIE behavior
of ignoring error messages.  IIS probably sends this by default.  Apache
chooses not to adopt stupid IIS standards.

Joshua.


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