[thelist] custom 404 not used with .shtml addresses

[Daniel J. Cody]

George - 

Make sure your custom error message for the .shtml pages is larger than
512 bytes. IE will display its own 404 page if the server's is less than
half a K. Once its over that limit, IE will do the rigth thing and
display the server 404.

There is also some advanced option tab in the IE preferences that has
something to do with 404's, although I can't think of it offhand

.djc.

George Dillon wrote:
> 
> > Both worked for me, IE5, PC Win98.
> 
> After a few more experiments, involving typing in all sorts of wrong
> URLS, including faulty extensions and addresses in both existent and
> noneistent subdirectories, I've given up trying to figure this one
> out... my original diagnosis was incomplete - it's not as simple as
> .htm works and .shtml doesn't - and I've decided that my Winie5 seems
> to have a random mind of its own and since no one else seems to be
> getting the problem, (and I can't reproduce it with Netscape) I'll
> just have to live with it!