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Hi, I have custom errors set in the web.config and am wanting to
redirect any bad url requests; 404 etc back to index.aspx

In web.config i have:
<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="error404.aspx" />

which redirects to error404.aspx, then in error404.aspx I have:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=index.aspx"> which seems to
work fine if i mess with the url file name but not the file extension,
so if I typle "indx.aspx" the server will redirect back to index.aspx
but a request for "index.asp" causes a plain old 404 error.

Any ideas why this must be?

Web.config is ASP.NET-only and is not handled when referencing a nonexistent
file or an ASP Classic or HTML file.

Jon


"Adie" <> wrote in message
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> Hi, I have custom errors set in the web.config and am wanting to
> redirect any bad url requests; 404 etc back to index.aspx
>
> In web.config i have:
> <customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="error404.aspx" />
>
> which redirects to error404.aspx, then in error404.aspx I have:
> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=index.aspx"> which seems to
> work fine if i mess with the url file name but not the file extension,
> so if I typle "indx.aspx" the server will redirect back to index.aspx
> but a request for "index.asp" causes a plain old 404 error.
>
> Any ideas why this must be?