Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 3671 invoked by uid 6000); 9 Apr 1999 06:48:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 3658 invoked from network); 9 Apr 1999 06:48:47 -0000 Received: from imo13.mx.aol.com (198.81.17.3) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 9 Apr 1999 06:48:47 -0000 Received: from TOKILEY@aol.com by imo13.mx.aol.com (IMOv20.9) id gONAa15543 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 02:47:42 -0400 (EDT) From: TOKILEY@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 02:47:42 EDT Subject: Re: general/4213: .htaccess skipped when IE5 has friendly error messages set To: new-httpd@apache.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 86 Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org In a message dated 99-04-08 22:56:40 EDT, Marc Slemko writes... > Synopsis: .htaccess skipped when IE5 has friendly error messages set > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed > State-Changed-By: marc > State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 8 19:56:35 PDT 1999 > State-Changed-Why: > Nope, this is entirely the fualt of the client. Please > complain to Microsoft. > > More to the point, you are doing the redirect by putting > a meta tag in the body. Don't do that! Just do a proper > HTTP redirect and the client can read it. > > Alternatively, if you make your files large enough by padding > them with something, IE will display them. That is... more than 512 bytes. It appears ( I emphasize 'appears' for any MS'ers reading this thread' ) IE5 assumes that anything less than 512 bytes coming back as an error response isn't worth displaying so that's when it puts up it's default 'response' screens. The assumption seem to be that anything less than 512 bytes will be nothing less than cryptic and might make their users uncomfortable ( or worse yet... generate a support call ). Some pretty scary decision making showing its face there.