Re: Washington Mutual -- network security?

From: winged (winged_at_nofollow.com)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: 02 Feb 2005 20:45:18 EST

flintmich wrote:
>>>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
>
Looks like IIS to me. The error page can be replaced with one of your
own choosing. You may not want to display reason for error on the
server "BUT" you may want to pass an error code or other explanation to
the user based on what caused the error. You can have multiple server
application errors pages by modifying the customerrors configuration tag
within your application. Is this what you are asking about?

Winged

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