Washington Mutual -- network security?

From: flintmich (chittle_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: 31 Jan 2005 10:06:16 -0800

>>From the Washington Mutual login page. benign stuff maybe, but...

Server Error in '/postlogon' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current
custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the
application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It
could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server
machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be
viewable on remote machines, please create a customErrors tag within a
web.config configuration file located in the root directory of the
current web application. This customErrors tag should then have its
mode attribute set to Off.

!-- Web.Config Configuration File --

configuration
system.web
customErrors mode=Off/
/system.web
/configuration

Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a
custom error page by modifying the defaultRedirect attribute of the
application's customErrors configuration tag to point to a custom error
page URL.

!-- Web.Config Configuration File --

configuration
system.web
customErrors mode=RemoteOnly defaultRedirect=mycustompage.htm/
/system.web
/configuration

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