I'm tidying up my understanding of error handling and realising how casual I've been up till now. not really worrying if a user gets a standard error message. There are much more graceful ways to tell them what idiots they've been.
In particular, I'm right now getting to grips with "page not found" errors. I've set up my web server to serve a custom 404 page, but it doesnt work for .cfm pages. The web server is sending the request off to coldfusion and waiting for CF to send it back. How do I make the error.cfm template recognise that the error is a page not found error, and customise the message accordingly? I guess a similar question applies to 403 errors and the others too. Since the suffix is .cfm, IIs wont class them as 403s or the other kinds of errors, but just pass them on to the CFMX server for processing. Is there a standard way to deal with these errors? (I think I've grasped the database errors and erros like divide by zero and invalid data etc, and I reckon you can do some pretty cool things in making errors disappear for users. In my case it's been a badly under-utilised aspect of ColdFusion. ) Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com .com,.net,.org domains from AUD$20/Year ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:183466 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
