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I am trying to debug a web service on a network I don't have a lot of privileges on, and have run into a somewhat inconvenient IE quirk. When I try to access a resource (web page, specifically) through IE7 on Windows XP, the browser shows me a "friendly" version of the error message, i.e.:

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

Most likely causes:

  • You are not connected to the Internet.
  • The website is encountering problems.
  • There might be a typing error in the address.

What I want is for it to give me the actual HTTP error code from the server.

Following the advice in this Knowledge Base article (although I did notice it was targeted at IE 5.x and 6.x) I tried disabling the "Show friendly HTTP error messages" checkbox under Tools -> Intenet Options -> Browsing, but found it was already unchecked. Not sure what else I can try.

Canadian Luke
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Assuming the page is hosted by an IIS server, the only options you have to see the error are to either A) log in to the web host and view the error on that machine, or B) get the network administrator to modify the config to allow the remote viewing of unfriendly errors.

Taegost
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