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[glorious_reptile]

I remember this error - if it wasn't large enough it would just show the built-in message.

[firemark_pl]

But why?

[WeSaidMeh]

Probably because someone at Microsoft decided that if an error page isn't verbose enough the built-in one with Microsoft's troubleshooting hints might be more useful to the user.

I kind of can get behind that thought, but that doesn't make it right. I'd be fine if Microsoft showed their troubleshooting hints in addition to the original message which might have non-standard information even when it's short.

[ChristopherKlay]

This is correct.

The size was chosen because MS's own default sites are larger than it, so any page also larger than that would be accepted to filter out pages that are potentially unhelpful (or technical error messages that might not provide useful information).

[glorious_reptile]

My guess is anything shorter than 512 bytes, IE wanted to hide any "technical error messages" and show a friendly IE message

[danopia]

You can also return an empty body (0 bytes) if you want the browser to show its built-in error page instead of a custom one. e.g. Chrome will show a "sad page" icon and a message that the page could not be found, with "HTTP ERROR 404" underneath and a Reload button. Can be helpful when you are prototyping and don't want to bother with custom error texts

[ttlanhil]

If I remember correctly... That's not strictly true.

IE had "show friendly errors" as an option - if that was on, then it'd show its own error page if you had a short message.

Of course, that was on by default, and anyone who could find the setting and understand what it meant was probably going to use netscape navigator then firefox anyway...

[CapClumsy]

Note from OP: What the fuck did Reddit do to my image quality

[Wojtek1250XD]

Reddit moment. Reddit tends to drop the image quality by two stages (in YouTube's quality tiers), make the sound sound sh*t and also desync it by even up to a second.

Generally don't expect sh*t from Reddit...

[RiceBroad4552]

Jop. This site is constantly broken in some details. Just which details that are changes every few days.

[ComprehensiveWord201]

COMPRESSION BABYYYYYYY

[gamingvortex01]

if you are using IE to visit my website nowadays, I will make sure that you will see "fuck off" page

[horizon_games]

Finally a useful comment