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René_Posthumus
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6 years ago

Need to rewrite a 500 status to 200, but how ?

Hi,   We have some applications depending on .NET framework that send normal messages like "username does not exist" with a response code 500, while these are legit responses. It seems to have so...
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Simon_Blakely
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6 years ago

An HTTP 500 status is an internal error status, and would not usually contain a html payload for display.

 

What is the content type and payload of the 500 response?

 

That iRule is the best option, but the actual HTTP::payload probably isn't something that you can send back to the client (unlike a 404, where the response body is expected to be valid HTML).

 

You can craft a 200 response, but may need to wrap the HTTP::payload in some suitable HTML tags to get then to display properly.

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René_Posthumus
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6 years ago

 

Hi S,

 

The payload is just text/html but i'm not that handy with iRules to be able to construct such a response. Can you ?

 

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

Cache-Control: private

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319

X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN

Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 06:46:55 GMT

Content-Length: 17554

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

X-XSS-Protection: 1;mode=block

Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

(content)

</html>

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