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Carsten Gaebler
news at snakefarm.org
Fri Apr 11 11:03:35 EDT 2003
In article <v29im-ia2.ln1 at nb2.stroeder.com>, Michael Ströder wrote:
>
> For security reasons I'd be scared of printing an arbitrary exception
> message to stdout in a web application since it is sent to the user's browser!
>
Of course I wouldn't do that in a real world situation. It was just a simple
example of how to handle an exception.
> stderr *is* captured by the web server and most times written to an error
> log. That's where those error messages belong.
Right. But if you are a really big ISP (and the original poster's ISP *is*
big) you do not want to let your web servers write error logs.
> If you don't have access to
> the error log redirect stderr to a local web application log file.
ACK.
cg.
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