Wendy: The reason I need to execute code is for me to send an error report to the site admin.
Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, JAMM Consulting, (214) 986-3533, www.JAMMConsulting.com FREE! Valuable info on how your business can reduce operating costs by 17% or more in 6 months or less! http://newsletter.JAMMConsulting.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 6:40 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Strange error-page behavior > > > From: "Neil Aggarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I have this directives in my web.xml file: > > <!-- Application wide error page --> > > <error-page> > > <exception-type>java.lang.Throwable</exception-type> > > <location>/error.do</location> > > <error-page> > > Having dealt with this recently, I'm fairly sure the > <location> has to be > something that the container can actually locate, read, and > send out to the > browser. > > I can't find anything in the Servlet 2.3 specification that > actually *says* > it has to be a physical file, but that's been my experience, and the > comments in the DTD (which refers to "a resource in the web > application" )seem to imply it. > > Consider this... by the time something *that* bad has happened, do you > really want to try to execute code before you can show > something to the > user? > > HTH, > -- > Wendy Smoak > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]