> >http://www.plinko.net/404/custom.asp#ie I still get IE's "friendly error message" for http://www.locahost.com/testing404.html which is 2.999 bytes long. Could some of you try it and see if you can reproduce the problem? (please use this url so I can filter the accesses out of my logs) http://www.locahost.com/testing404.html Looking in my registry (following MS's http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q218/1/55.asp HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\ErrorThresholds 404 = 200. 200 bytes. So what's up? I checked the response headers and I get this: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:52:39 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) Connection: close Content-Type: text/html Which all looks fine to me... thanks Sam puzzled-i-am