On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 11:55 +0200, Max Ischenko wrote:
> I'm pondering about the possibility to tweak WebKit to use HTTP status
> codes to report errors. Currently, it returns error pages, just like
> normal ones, with 200 OK.
> IMO this is not a great idea. For one, this hinders work of log
> analyzers (Apache), as you have to dig through WebKit logs to find out
> how many errors actually were in requests, handled by WebKit itself.
> Secondly, it complicates automatic testing as I have to parse html
> content returned to check if there were an error instead of simply
> checking for status codes.
> Therefore I'd prefer to have the html error page served with, say, "501
> WebKit application error" or something like that.
This is in CVS, in HTTPExceptions.py, Application.py and HTTPResponse.py.
(search for HTTPException).
peace,
Jason
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