Internet Explorer Turn Off Friendly Error Messages
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'14 Friendly HTTP Error Pages ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ EricLaw [ex-MSFT]August 18, 20100 Share 0 0 Internet Explorer 5 and later will show a “Friendly” HTTP Error page if the server show friendly http error messages chrome returns certain HTTP Error status codes with a short message body. The intent is
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to replace a terse server message like this one: …with a page which may be slightly more helpful to the http 500 internal server error internet explorer how to fix average user, like this one: Unfortunately, IE's logic isn't smart enough to detect that, say, the response was a tiny HTML page with a META Refresh pointed at a different page, meaning that the META Refresh won't work until you pad the HTML response with enough text to be deemed "non-terse." A common question from web developers is: What makes IE decide to show a friendly error page? The answer is that the server’s response must meet two criteria: The HTTP Status code must be [400, 403, 404, 405, 406, 408, 409, 410, 500, 501, 505] The HTTP Response body’s byte length must be shorter than a threshold value If the server’s response meets both criteria, then IE will show its own Friendly HTTP Error page instead of the server’s terse response. The byte length thresholds are stored in the registry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE under the subkey \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\ErrorThresholds. The default threshold is 256 bytes for the response codes [403, 405, 410] and 512 bytes for response codes [400, 404, 406, 408, 409, 500, 501, 505]. If the registry entry is missing for one of the status codes, its threshold defaults to 512 bytes. I wrote a simple script which allows you to test IE’s Friendly HTTP Error pages using Meddler. The next most common question is: How do I prevent IE from showing the friendly error page? If a user wants to prevent display of all Friendly HTTP Error pages, they can untick an option in the Internet Control Panel's Advanced tab, then restart IE. Of course, only the Friendly HTTP Error pages can be disabled in this way; other Friendly Error pages (like the DNS Lookup error or TCP/IP Connection failure page) cannot be disabled because IE has no other content from the server to display instead. Of course, it is impractical (and not necess
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Can I (how do I) disable “Friendly HTTP Error Messages” in MS Edge Browser? up vote 4 down vote favorite As a web developer, I depend on the ability to disable "Show Friendly HTTP Error Messages" and enable "Display a Notification about Every Error". https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ieinternals/2010/08/18/friendly-http-error-pages/ These are both in the Advanced Settings in IE. I have to test an app in MS Edge, but I'm getting a 500 internal Server error. No big deal, I can fix it if I know what's wrong. I don't see any such options in Advanced Settings in Edge. Is it possible to turn off Friendly Error Messages in MS Edge? internet-explorer microsoft-edge share|improve this question asked Dec 9 '15 at 22:20 Kirby L. Wallace 409210 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34190097/can-i-how-do-i-disable-friendly-http-error-messages-in-ms-edge-browser up vote 3 down vote accepted Unfortunately it is not possible right now but you can: use f12 tools to see the actual content of the page use Internet Explorer or another browser in which you can disable friendly errors to see the detail. Hope this helps! share|improve this answer answered Dec 10 '15 at 6:04 Etienne Margraff 52026 Well, it helps in that at least I know! ;-) Thanks! –Kirby L. Wallace Dec 10 '15 at 14:27 Great ! could you mark my answer as good if you find that it is ? :)Thanks a lot –Etienne Margraff Dec 11 '15 at 13:55 1 Wow, Microsoft is on the leading Edge of crappiness once again (see what I did there?). Why the heck is it so hard for them to have a toggle hidden somewhere? –Doktor J Apr 28 at 8:23 No. The F12 tools does not show you the content of the error page from server. Instead, it does show the content of the Edge's builtin 500-error page. –sebastian nielsen May 15 at 12:32 ouch. that's brutal. –alexdej Aug 3 at 20:08 add a comment| Your Answer draft saved draft discarded Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Facebook Sign up using Email and Password Post as a guest Name Email Post as a guest Name Email discard By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service. Not the answer you're lo
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13455792/what-is-the-purpose-of-show-friendly-http-error-messages-option-in-ie hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/1085-turn-off-friendly-http-error-messages-in-ie Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up what is the purpose of 'Show friendly HTTP error messages' option in IE up vote 0 down vote favorite In my web.xml created error page tag using 404 error-code error messages to re-direct page. In IE if uncheck the 'Show friendly HTTP error messages' . then only it works fine and displaying re-directed page. If the option is enable then 'Page not display' error occurs. any one tell me what is use of 'Show friendly HTTP error messages' option in IE Internet Option.(tools -> Internet options -> Advanced -> Browsing (Show friendly HTTP error messages) javascript jsp share|improve this question asked Nov 19 '12 at 14:25 Raju 103111 5 show friendly http Why are you using 404 to redirect? Don't do that! –deceze Nov 19 '12 at 14:27 its an user-centric feature –Daniel A. White Nov 19 '12 at 14:27 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 6 down vote IE Implemented this feature because most users don't know what 404 means and it just confuses them further. Unfortunately for developers that means that useful information or a nicer implementation gets shielded from the user. Jeff Atwood has a decent writeup about 404 pages. One of his suggestions is : You have to make your customized 404 page larger than 512 bytes, otherwise IE will assume it's a standard web server 404 message and replace it with its own friendly-ized version. So try making your 404 page more than 512 bytes and see if it is then shown to the user. share|improve this answer answered Nov 19 '12 at 14:32 John Koerner 25.3k64279 Thanks its working now –Raju Nov 19 '12 at 15:13 1 @Raju Then, why not mark this the as the accepted answer? –Fabian Schmied Mar 1 '14 at 9:20 add a comment| up vote 1 down vote An HTTP response consists of the HTTP headers and the HTTP body. The first header contains the HTTP response code, which is a defined set of numeric codes that convey a certain meaning.
7 but the theory is the same for IE 8 Steps (6 total) 1 Open Internet Explorer Nice and simple Yes some shameless self promotion of HPS Group - http://oots.be/hpsgroup 2 Open Internet Options You should have a tools button, at the bottom Internet Options 3 The internet options window should popup You should then have some tabs at the top, one says Advanced 4 In the advanced tab You should find a option for "show friendly http error messages" 5 Untick "show friendly http error messages" 6 Hit OK to save the changes Conclusion You should now be done and you can see the real error message of the page. References Unofficial Spiceworks 4 Comments Ghost Chili Lawrie5252 Mar 11, 2010 at 06:17am Nice one Andy, Spiced. I just published one too, Opening ISA Server to being scanned by Spiceworks: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/1084 Take a look at it and let me know if it looks OK. Pure Capsaicin akp982 Mar 11, 2010 at 06:28am Looks good, sent ya a PM :-) Pure Capsaicin Justin.Davison Mar 11, 2010 at 08:17am Nice one Andy, thanks for sharing Tabasco ITMikeNJ Mar 16, 2010 at 09:30am Thanks, Andy. Simple yet elegant. Read these next... Snap! Critical flaws found in VeraCrypt, details emerge about Assange's hack Spiceworks Originals A daily dose of today's top tech news, in brief. To save or not to save login credentials? Best Practices & General IT Seriously, what do you do? I'm sick and tired of wondering if I'm doing things right or not. Poll: What's the most common complaint you hear from users? Water Cooler When a network error crops up and affects your users, you're sure as hell going to hear some griping. But what's the most common gripe you hear? HPE wants to know. © Copyright 2006-2016 Spiceworks Inc. About Advertising Privacy Terms Help Sitemap × Join millions of IT pros like you Log in to Spiceworks Reset community password Agree to Terms of Service Connect with Or Sign up with your email address First Name Last Name Email Join Now or Log In Email Password Log In Forgot your password? Email