ASP error logging

[Marcin]

Hi,

The problem is the following: I have experienced some ASP errors in my
web application and I'm unable to reproduce those errors because IIS
is configured in a way that does not send any debugging messages to
the user (and I cannot change it). Only standard string "An error
occured on the web server when processing the url..." is sent. So, two
questions:
1) Is there any way to log such situations to the eventlog, a file,
database or any other storage?
OR
2) Is there any way to allow me to send only piece on debugging
information to the user. In other words: I'd like to send error code
that would be understandable only by me?

thanks
P.

 

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

Hi,

The problem is the following: I have experienced some ASP errors in my
web application and I'm unable to reproduce those errors because IIS
is configured in a way that does not send any debugging messages to
the user (and I cannot change it). Only standard string "An error
occured on the web server when processing the url..." is sent. So, two
questions:
1) Is there any way to log such situations to the eventlog, a file,
database or any other storage?
OR
2) Is there any way to allow me to send only piece on debugging
information to the user. In other words: I'd like to send error code
that would be understandable only by me?

thanks
P.

Does this apply? http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2109
Bob Barrows

 

[Marcin]

no it does not . I cannot tell users to change their browsers settings.
Any other ideas?

 

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

Huh? You can't make a simple request to your users to turn off Friendly
errors to help you debug your application so that their use of your
application will be enhanced? This seems ultra-cautios on your part (to me,
at least).

An alternative would be to use a custom error page to do your error logging
(http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2335), but you say this is not allowed.

The only solution I can see is to write a page that logs the errors to a
database (or perhaps to a flat file), then include code in each and every
page to call this error handler when errors occur.

Bob Barrows

 

[Jeff Cochran]

no it does not . I cannot tell users to change their browsers settings.
Any other ideas?

Change yours and duplicate the user's actions. The browser is hiding
the error message you need.

Jeff