On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:06:08 -0400  Douglas Kline wrote:

> So what is the upshot of ColdFusion's response to you about a site-wide
> error-handler?  Would such an error-handler not be useful for htdig?  

Not really.  It would just be different text, but still an eror message.


> If not, would it be useful for some other purpose?

It would indicate to the human viewer that something had gone wrong and
might invite them to send a message to the webmaster.  Assuming anyone
at the remote site cared enough :-(


> So htdig passed the user_agent value "htdig" to the Web-server which
> in turn passed it on to ColdFusion which reacted with an error
> message.  The .cfm pages could have been written with instructions to
> interpret the value of "htdig" for user_agent the same way it
> interprets the value "Mozilla/4.0 (htdig 3.2.b5)".  Is that right?

Yes.



> This still leaves open the question of why the .cfm pages work with
> ht-Dig version 3.1.5 for which we haven't defined "user_agent".

No idea.  Pehaps if you posted the URL of the offending pages I'll take
a look.  Especially if there are any interesting deep-sky pictures to be
found there ;-)


Mike
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