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- If I'm in the middle of sending an HTML document and I get a server error
- how should this be handled? The problem is when we have already generated
- the HTTP status line and the mime headers and sent part of the document
- before we know about the error.
-
- HTTP/1.0 200 Document Follows
- MIME-version: 1.0
- ...
- <error happens here>
-
- Right now I just sort of barf some HTML at the client, that includes an
- error message, and hope it does the right thing (you might be in the middle
- of a header or something).
-
- I know that in general this isn't a big problem (the user figures out
- something went wrong soon enough) but it seems like we should be able to
- do this a little cleaner.
-
- I was thinking about something like <ERROR>...</ERROR>, which could then
- contain relevant facts about the error and local problem reporting
- procedures if it was a server error. Clever clients would move the
- error to the top and keep all other data intact just in case it's useful
- in spite of the error.
-
- You might even use </BODY><ERROR>...</ERROR> so that clients could
- resync on the </BODY> in case they are inside of a <H1> or something,
- this might make the parser a little easier.
-
- Comments?
-
- --sanders
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