Getting IIS 6 to return specific HTTP status code programatically with Classic ASP

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I have a custom 404 page that, when triggered:

parses the requested URL for a specific string
checks a database for this value
inserts specific HTTP header(s) based on results returned from db

Depending on the condition, I will send this to the browser:

Response.AddHeader "Location", a_dynamic_url
Response.Status = "301 Moved"

When the specific string is found in my database, the client browser behaves as desired by loading the dynamic URL I've set in the location header.

Here's my issue...

When the specific string is NOT FOUND in my database, I'm unable to set status to "404 Not Found" and display custom HTML in the browser.

I can do one or the other, but not both at the same time. It's either the 404 status, or custom HTML (with status of 200).

In contrast, if you use HTTP Fox in Firefox to see the request/response headers, then navigate to an unknown bit.ly URL (like: "bit.ly/asdfasdf") the status returned is 404 and the HTML is custom.

Any ideas on how I can rig IIS 6 to do the same thing with Classic ASP?

Eduardo Molteni · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-03 19:25:21Z

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Are you aware of the "IE Friendly Errors" and the 512 bytes of content that your HTML needs to have to make sure that your HTML (instead of IE's friendly status message) shows up to your users?

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/09/442332.aspx

answered Jan 3, 2011 at 19:25

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Brian Over a year ago

First thing I found was that I misrepresented one facet of my issue. I was getting the Google Toolbar "Ooops, this link appears to be broken" response. I did actually try to put some miscellaneous content on the page to make sure the size was large enough, but apparently I didn't put enough in there. I added about 1000 lines of commented garbage and the response worked as I needed to. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. (previous comment deleted.)

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