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Defining custom error pages is a convenient way to show users a friendly page when they encounter an HTTP error such as a 404 Not Found, or a 500 Server Error. Unfortunately ASP.NET handles custom error pages by responding with a 302 Temporary redirect to the error page that was defined. In this post I explain how to create a custom HttpModule that allows you to use custom error pages while preserving the original HTTP status code and avoiding the 302 redirect to the error page.
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from g1smd 255 days ago #
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Good post highlighting yet another flaw in a Microsoft system, but then coming up with a great solution to fix it.

HTTP status codes seem to be little understood, and badly implemented, on very many ASP sites.

Apache has a couple of gotchas, too, but usually only from an error in the syntax used in the .htaccess file... and the Apache manual already warns about those cases.


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