thanks for the reply. I tried that but it does not seem to make any difference.
what version of tomcat are you using? James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jilles van Gurp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:33 PM Subject: Re: tomcat exception handling > swallowoutput=true in your context should help > > Jilles > > James Cowan wrote: > > Hi > > > > How do I suppress the stack trace from exception handling globally (i.e. not > > using an errorPage directive)? > > > > I have tried setting the Verbosity of the Logger elements in the server.xml > > (for Tomcat 5.0.28) to 0 but this does not seem to stop stack trace. > > > > A simple jsp like this: > > > > <% > > if (true) > > throw new Exception("Some exception"); > > %> > > > > produces this output: > > exception > > > > javax.servlet.ServletException: Some exception > > > > org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextI > > mpl.java:825) > > org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImp > > l.java:758) > > org.apache.jsp.e_jsp._jspService(e_jsp.java:53) > > org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94) > > javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) > > > > org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:3 > > 24) > > org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292) > > org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236) > > javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) > > > > I just want the HTTP 500 error displayed and no more information. > > > > James Cowan > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]