Hi

I have problems to show my proper error page inside IE if the status is 4xx or 5xx.

In CB I got the tip to adjust Content-Length (Ambrus++) and indeed there seems to be a relation

The answer is that the server’s response must meet two criteria:

The HTTP Status code must be [400, 403, 404, 405, 406, 408, 409, 410, 500, 501, 505] The HTTP Response body’s byte length must be shorter than a threshold value

If the server’s response meets both criteria, then IE will show its own Friendly HTTP Error page instead of the server’s terse response.

source http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ieinternals/2010/08/18/friendly-http-error-pages/

but adding this doesn't help 

   print $query->header(
                        -type           => 'text/html',
                        -charset        => 'utf-8',
                        -status         => '400',  
                        -Content_Length => '100000',
                       );

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I noticed that FF shows the Content-length field of the reply with a lower case "l" no matter how I uppercase the -Content_Length option. (should be the same in IE, but the developer console doesn't help inspecting the header here)

Any suggestions?

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
Je suis Charlie!

In reply to Own error-page with CGI.pm instead of "Friendly HTTP Error" in Internet-Explorer by LanX

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