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by Jason Bean on May 30th, 2006

I’m going to throw this out there as it’s giving me a headache today trying to figure out why this problem is occuring. Any insight from you all would be appreciated.

I’m developing a few ASP.NET pages for a client. On one of the pages I’ve setup the link to go to an error page if the connection to the database fails due to invalid or no data available in the database. Here are the three scenarios that are taking place:

1. When I view and test the functionality through my computer, the error page is displayed and directs the user back to the main page of their request. IT WORKS!
2. When I view the page using the link through the SSL Sharepoint portal, the page works and displays the error page as expected. IT WORKS!
3. When I try to display the page directly from the server machine it’s hosted on (http://abc123/customrqst/errorpage.aspx), then I get a weird error display, and not the custom error page I developed. IT’S BROKE

Now, a friend of mine has suggested that it’s because of the SSL pages referencing itself on the server and not working. He’s also suggested that’s run into some weird phenomenon about trying to display a webpage locally from the server it’s sitting on while on the server itself.

Does anyone have any insight?

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