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Hello, I am building a Intra-net and my requirement need is to disable
or even create a custom page for the default Windows message,
"Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Can someone please
show me some programmatic way or method to achieve this?

Thank you a zillion!

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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:30:39 -0800, youtake wrote:

> Hello, I am building a Intra-net and my requirement need is to disable
> or even create a custom page for the default Windows message,
> "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Can someone please
> show me some programmatic way or method to achieve this?

From the things you said after this, it sounds as if you may not have a
server running to serve the pages on your intranet. If you had, say,
Apache running you could serve custom error pages using the .htaccess
file with lines kind of like this:

ErrorDocument 400 /error_docs/er400.html
ErrorDocument 401 /error_docs/er401.html
ErrorDocument 403 /error_docs/er403.html
ErrorDocument 404 /error_docs/er404.html

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed writing in
news: oups.com:

> Hello, I am building a Intra-net and my requirement need is to disable
> or even create a custom page for the default Windows message,
> "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Can someone please
> show me some programmatic way or method to achieve this?
>
> Thank you a zillion!
>
>

You can use a custom error page. Do that in the IIS snapin:
Right click on the site, and go to the custom errors tab. Then find the
error number and edit as needed.

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On Feb 16, 5:30 pm, yout...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello, I am building a Intra-net and my requirement need is to disable
> or even create a custom page for the default Windows message,
> "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Can someone please
> show me some programmatic way or method to achieve this?

Stop using Internet Explorer and use a decent browser instead, such as
Mozilla Firefox or SeaMonkey. These won't give you error pages saying
"Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Problem solved!

--
Dan

"Dan" <> wrote:

> On Feb 16, 5:30 pm, yout...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello, I am building a Intra-net and my requirement need is to disable
> > or even create a custom page for the default Windows message,
> > "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Can someone please
> > show me some programmatic way or method to achieve this?
>
> Stop using Internet Explorer and use a decent browser instead, such as
> Mozilla Firefox or SeaMonkey.

Without getting into whether IE is a decent browser or not, it is easy
to configure it to not show "friendly" error pages, and instead dump raw
and -- to http hippies -- pretty straightforward error data. An entirely
new browser is not required.

In any event, as others have mentioned, the real solution is
server-side, not browser politics.

--
Joel.

Thank you all, but in this case, I believe the messages displayed to
users in my OP is generated from the browser client, not pipelined
from a server.

On Feb 17, 5:24 pm, yout...@gmail.com wrote:
> Thank you all, but in this case, I believe the messages displayed to
> users in my OP is generated from the browser client, not pipelined
> from a server.

I think you misunderstand here.

A browser will try to connect a user to the chosen webpage. If it
cannot find the server, then it generates one message.

If however, it finds the server, but not the specified page, then it
will look for a custom page on the server (for example 404.html) - and
then if that is not found, will display its standard error page.
mbstevens gives you an example above on how to create custom error
pages on the server side.

IE can however override these with "friendly error messages" - you can
apparently avoid this by ensuing that any custom error pages are more
than 512 bytes.

However, if you want to cover the position where the server itself
cannot be found or the internet connection is missing, I believe you
can do this through the custom browser tools provided in the Internet
Explorer Administration Kit - see
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...fault.mspx#EDE

Not tried this myself, but worth a go

Rich Mellor
www.internetbusinessangels.com