Fetch returning page html despite error

cpm18 · Post by **cpm18** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:50 pm

I am getting some unexpected results while fetching a page. The page in question is http://www.theenvironmentsite.org/forum ... world.html.

The problem I am having is after fetching the page, I get back the correct html but it also returns a value of 'Server Error' from <urlinfo "errmsg">. Thus my script does nothing with the html it returned since it thinks there is a problem. The thing that I am confused about it why is a server error returned yet the page fetched correctly?

Post by **mark** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:48 pm

What's the errnum? httpcode?
Were there any putmsg's during the fetch? What did they say?

Post by **John** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:53 pm

It looks like the server does return an HTTP 500 code with "Internal Server Error", but still returns the page. It may be some browser detection code crashing and generating the HTTP status code.

Post by **John** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:55 pm

Actually just tried it in the browser and that also gets a "500 Internal Server Error" returned, but shows the HTML, so I'm not sure if the server has a misconfiguration, or is doing it intentionally to throw off crawlers.