Commit 3becf489 authored by Joshua Slive's avatar Joshua Slive
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At long last, document the MSIE "friendly error message" issue. 

I was very diplomatic here.  I was tempted to use the apache bully-pulpit to
berate MS over this arrogant mis-feature, but I restrained myself.


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docs/manual/mod/core.html.en

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    "ErrorDocument 401" directive then it must refer to a local

    document.</strong></p>



    <p>Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) will ignore server-generated

    error messages when they are "too small" and substitute its own

    "friendly" error messages.  The size threshold varies depending on

    the type of error, but in general, if you make your error document

    greater than 512 bytes, then MSIE will show the server-generated

    error rather than masking it.  More information is available in

    Microsoft Knowledgebase article <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q294807">Q294807</a>.</p>



    <p>Prior to version 2.0, messages were indicated by prefixing

    them with a single unmatched double quote character.</p>

<p><strong>See also </strong></p><ul><li><a href="../custom-error.html">documentation of

docs/manual/mod/core.xml

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    "ErrorDocument 401" directive then it must refer to a local

    document.</strong></p>



    <p>Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) will ignore server-generated

    error messages when they are "too small" and substitute its own

    "friendly" error messages.  The size threshold varies depending on

    the type of error, but in general, if you make your error document

    greater than 512 bytes, then MSIE will show the server-generated

    error rather than masking it.  More information is available in

    Microsoft Knowledgebase article <a

    href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q294807">Q294807</a>.</p>



    <p>Prior to version 2.0, messages were indicated by prefixing

    them with a single unmatched double quote character.</p>

</usage>