Question

Scenario: We have a website that is viewed both internally and externally. When an error occurs the users are displayed with a detailed error page(Stack trace etc).

Problem: The external customers do not need that much information about the error. We are looking to have the external customers see a messsage instead. Ex. Please contact Administrator. Also if possible we would like to log this message in our SQL database.

Note: I’m assuming I make a custom error page like – Implementing a Custom Error page on an ASP.Net website but how do I determine whether or not the user is internal/external? Also is this the best way to approach the problem? Additionally if anyone has suggestions on the best way to store these errors in the database that is also appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

YOu can try settings your mode to RemoteOnly in the web.config

<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly">

This way local users will see the error, and external users will see the other error pages which you have set up.

There is an article here about such things http://aspnetresources.com/articles/CustomErrorPages