How to see the actual server side error message in the browser?

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I'm having a trouble reproducing an issue a user is having in IE, but something that always bugged me is how can I see the error message from classic ASP page in IE for example on a dev server.

In IE all I see is for example:

This page contains programming error

And that's it.

Note: since this is server side, it applies to all browsers.

Steve · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-01 14:17:02Z

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I remember this one!

You need to go into ie settings > advanced > uncheck "show friendly http errors"

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edited Mar 1, 2012 at 14:17

answered Mar 1, 2012 at 3:14

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Breadtruck Over a year ago

It should. If not your IIS settings are not allowing the error to be sent to the client.

Steve Over a year ago

@StevieB - Yes. Ditto what Breadtruck said. I always remember having to do that on a new machine with IE - because it tries to hide the actual details of the error behind a user-friendly facade. If you do that and you aren't getting error details - make sure IIS is configured to send them to the client.

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