Archive for the 'HTTP' Category

More On ASP.NET’s Broken Error Handling

December 10th, 2008 by nickfitz

I’ve looked a bit more into the way ASP.NET handles HTTP errors, and frankly it now seems not just irritating, but downright bizarre.
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Why Can’t Microsoft Just Use HTTP Like Everybody Else?

December 7th, 2008 by nickfitz

A few moments ago I was following a link from Google to Raymond Chen’s excellent MSDN blog The Old New Thing. As has happened to me before, I ended up getting redirected to an ASP.NET error page at a totally different URL, telling me that the site was “unable to service my request.”
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