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symkat on March 31, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bandwidth Limit Exceeded (View The Source)

http://www.404-error-page.com/404-error-page-too-short-probl...

Go figure, 500 errors are rewritten if they're less than 512 bytes. O.O

personalcompute on March 31, 2011 [–]

Good to know, but why would they do this? Is it really worth hiding valuable error information from your users just to what, promote your search engine and have a somewhat more consistent UI?

SaltwaterC on March 31, 2011 | [–]

Google does that with Chrome as well. Now go figure why BigCos do that with their browsers.

PS: at least nginx takes care of this issue http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#msie_padding

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