At 15:42 03.06.2002, Igor Sysoev wrote:
>On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Richard Clarke wrote:
>
> >     Before I present a detailed description of the problem I thought I'd
> > just bounce of an intro to see if its a common "fault".
> > I have found, using apache 1.x latest and mod_perl 1.x latest that if I use
> > internal redirection to a mod_perl handler for ErrorDocument 500
> > (server_error) then even though I return the perfectly correct data (html
> > headers etc) to the browser, every browser works fine. Except that is,
> > Internet Explorer 6 (maybe earlier too but I have no test bed). Internet
> > Explorer chooses to display the default Microsoft internal server error 
> page
> > and not the html which is actually returned. If I use a network monitor 
> like
> > Iris I can see that the data is returned perfectly...but Internet Explorer
> > refuses to display it. This problem my apply to other error codes. The only
> > fix I found is to use a fully qualified host redirect for the
> > ErrorDocument.. but then I lose fancy stuff like previous request analysis.
> > Any ideas?
>
>You error response size should be more then 512 bytes:
>http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q294/8/07.ASP

I just added a note about this in the documentation, under 
docs/tutorials/browserbugs. I had encountered this error before, and it 
seems like a surprising enough pitfall to be documented.


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