Do you make up the error messages when something goes wrong with LJ???

What is up with the "STUPID IE" when viewing the source? [yeah I know we do weird things ,ie viewing sources of random pages, when studying for finals!]

The problem is that IE has its own dumb rule it made up where it'll show its own error message if the content-length of the server's error message is below a certain length.

They assume if it's less than 'n' bytes, it must be boring and generic. So, I add all that stupid IE stuff to push it over the limit.

Their message says "this site is fucked, hit reload a bunch"... that's not what I want users to see. I want to be able to explain the problem.

Maybe you should put a really big LiveJournal logo in there, like 800k or something.

It's the size of the HTML, not the size of the images it contains.

I wasn't being serious anyway, but are you sure about that? My custom 404 works in Win IE (as in, the custom one displays, not the Windows one), and I don't think there is that much HTML. The image is large enough, though... the document is only 354 byes, but the image is 36,963 bytes. I'll have to disagree with you about that.

Perhaps they have other heuristics, like "does the page contain an IMG tag?"

I've never found documentation for it, and it certainly isn't an internet standard.

Actually, I am using IE 5.5 on WinNT 4 and when I go to the link ibrad posted, I get IE's vanilla 404 message, not the custom one.

I hope this is what was talked about, I skimmed the posts...

Ah, okay.

I think the reason I saw ibrad's was because I've turned off "Friendly HTTP error messages".

Kenji was pissed that all the brownies were gone by the time he came down since he donated the eggs - by the time I remebered to grab him one all that was left was the empty pan.......so much for the person who eats the last brownie washing the pan!! :)

It wasn't me!!!! When I left there were still 3 in there!!

Hmmm....let's blame Scott.

When I left there was 1.5 left :-)

Man, there's TONS of dublicates. Go look at any artist folder of any artist you grabbed albums of last night. Bob Marley, Everclear, etc, etc. You can basically just delete any songs that were previously in your folder becuase you know have them on the album.

I'm taking it that you're done? I'm going to start deleteing some of the albums to free up space if that's cool.

I haven't rerun stuff yet.... I just copied shit and went back to studying.

ahh...gotcha

done?

yeah