Trapping Http 500 error

[Raymond Du]

Hi,

I have an ASP.Net 1.1 web services project, occasionally it will encounters
500 or other errors, as you know 500 error could be a result of all kind of
problems. Instead of letting IIS display the error, can I trap the error
using ASP.Net and customize the error page or silently handle the error?

TIA

 

[Robson Siqueira]

Yes, you can trap the errors. For that you would use:

catch (WebException wex)
{
HttpStatusCode httpStatus = HttpStatusCode.NotFound;

if (wex.Response is HttpWebResponse)
httpStatus = ((HttpWebResponse)wex.Response).StatusCode;
}

Hope it helps.

 

[Raymond Du]

Thank you for your response.

Where should I put the code snippet in? In the page_load of every .aspx
files? I doubt the page_load get called when 500 error happens.

Thanks Again

 

[Robson Siqueira]

You should create a global error handling. A very good article detailing
that can be found at http://www.developer.com/net/asp/article.php/961301.

I hope it helps.