[thelist] Funniest 404 Error Pages? Follow up

Tony Crockford tonyc at boldfish.co.uk
Mon Mar 26 11:41:11 CST 2001


Sorry wrong thread!

In case you are interested:

And here's the answer to my earlier query:

As you may know, version 5 of Internet Explorer has its own 'friendly'
error messages built in, so that you don't have to look at the ugly
standard 404. However, some people who have designed their own custom
404s have found that IE is still ignoring their page and displaying its
own message, which is likely not quite as helpful as the custom error.
Silly Microsoft, always trying to do our thinking for us. Here's how to
get around it - and it's simple!

IE looks at the size of the 404 page to decide whether to display its
own error. All you have to do is make sure that the size of your file is
greater than 512 bytes. If you just add a graphic, you'll be well over
that size.

 From http://www.404lab.com/404/custom.asp#ie





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