[fpc-devel] fpweb is not showing the exception message

Tue Apr 12 09:01:26 CEST 2011

On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, ABorka wrote:

> I was playing today with fpweb a little, and found a simply reproducible 
> minor problem.
>
> When one creates a new CGI or FCGI application and creates a simple default 
> action, but NOT setting the "handled := true;" within the event handler, then 
> some kind of exception happens within fpweb when the action is called from 
> the client browser, but it does not return a full response error message 
> page.
> All that comes back to the client is:
>
> "<html><head><title>APPNAME: "
>
> where the APPNAME is the title for the application. This happens at least for 
> CGI and FCGI applications, not sure about Apache modules as I did not try 
> that.
> As soon, as we have "handled := true;" there, everything is OK.
> If we have "handled := false;" or simply not setting it, the above issue 
> happens. It seems, that there is a problem with displaying error 
> messages/exceptions from within fpweb internals.
>
> /Latest FPC and Lazarus SVN, WinXP 32bit/

I cannot reproduce this at least on Linux 64 bit and Windows 2000 32bit.

I am working with these things full-time at the moment, and I always get the full 
page.

Michael.