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The grob must be in the frobber. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11544048/how-do-i-suppress-friendly-error-messages-in-internet-explorer Unfortunately, Internet Explorer ignores the response sent by the HTTP server; hiding my page and showing their own: How can I convince Internet Explorer to show the page the user was sent? internet-explorer share|improve this question edited Aug 13 '13 at 17:26 TRiG 5,46523170 asked Jul 18 '12 at 14:44 Ian Boyd 85.2k150529857 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 28 down vote accepted The solution is PADDING. Microsoft notes in knowledge base article KB294807: HOW TO: Turn Off the Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.x "Show Friendly HTTP Error Messages" Feature on the Server Side ...these "friendly" error messages are only displayed if the response that is sent to the client is less than or equal to a specified threshold. For example, to see the exact text of an HTTP 500 response, the content length must be greater than 512 bytes. Implement this padding. To do this, use the VBScript String function to return a string of the same characOn the Advanced tab, under the Browsing section, click to clear the Show friendly HTTP error messages check box, and then click OK. Close the browser. For Mozilla Firefox: Open up a new tab (CTRL+T) or window (CTRL+N). Type in the error messages addressbar: about:config. In the filterbar type: error and press Enter. Now set the value of the browser.xul.error_pages.enabled to true. Double clicking will do. Restart Firefox. Any web developer should have this feature turned off by default. Related articles: How do I setup friendly error messages custom error for my ASP.net application? After setting customErrors to off my application still does not show the error details. Related Articles No Related Articles Available. Article Attachments No Attachments Available. Related External Links No Related Links Available. Help us improve this article... What did you think of this article? poor 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 excellent Tell us why you rated the content this way. (optional) Approved Comments... No user comments available for this article. Created on 2/2/2005 7:10:00 PM. Last Modified on 6/30/2009 1:57:00 PM. Last Modified by ISQ Solutions Inc. Article has been viewed 7205 times. Rated 4 out of 10 based on 6 votes. Print Article © 2001-2015 ISQ Webhosting Inc., All Rights Reserved.