Date: 07/07/10 (C Sharp)    Keywords: html, asp, web

I posted my question here originally last night but I figured I might as well reach out to the LJ crowd to see if anyone here has answers.

I implemented an error handling httpmodule similar to the one described here:

http://wiki.asp.net/page.aspx/917/neater-handling-of-exceptions/

If I run the application locally through the Visual Studio Development Server everything works as expected. If I run it through IIS with a wildcard mapping set up in the ISAPI extensions to go to the dotnet dll, and I have the checkbox to "Verify that the file exists" turned off - it works as expected for .aspx files but not for anything else.

In my web.config I have the following:

    
      
      
    
    
      
    

And under IIS errors I have it set up so that 404 errors go to the same 404 URL in web.config.

The behavior I am expecting is that if I go to appliationname.com/xyz.html and the page does not exist, it is kicked into the error handling code. The error handling module is set up to log the event and I should get an email. And even failing that the 404 page should still load in IIS settings.

The error handling code does kick in if I go to appliationname.com/xyz.aspx - a page which does not exist. But for any other file extension the 404 processing is handled by IIS. So any error logging I am doing in the HTTPModule is not getting called.

When I run an HTML page it does get processed to some extent. The code I have in Application_BeginRequest in global.asax does get called. But at the end of that block it stops processing.

The application I am working on is a migration of older code. I want to be alerted to every 404 that comes through the application so that I can see if we missed anything. I could potentially get this sort of information from the IIS logs or I could try to move the error logging to the code behind of the error pages instead of the HTTPModule. But I shouldn't have to should I? Why won't it process HTML? And why does it work when when running the application through Visual Studio but bot when I run it through IIS?

Any help would be appreciated.

Source: http://csharp.livejournal.com/106895.html