Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Changed error messages to return http status 500 instead of 200

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5: Re: Changed error messages to return http status 500 instead of 200 (response to 1)
Posted by Lars Pind on 09/27/03 11:10 PM
Tillmann, just checking ... you're not returning 500 on input validation errors, security violation, etc., right?
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6: Re: Changed error messages to return http status 500 instead of 200 (response to 5)
Posted by Tilmann Singer on 09/28/03 08:29 PM
Lars: no, the change to status code 500 only affects internal server errors.

Regarding blowing up the error message - what about inserting some lengthy rants about internet explorer and download links to alternatives? 😉

Seriously, I think we could blow it up conditionally, looking at the user-agent header, but I'll refrain from doing that since I don't have any IE installations available to test it.