Schadenfreude » web programming http://www.ralree.com Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:49:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Fun with browser error pages http://www.ralree.com/2007/10/26/fun-with-browser-error-pages/ http://www.ralree.com/2007/10/26/fun-with-browser-error-pages/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:30:00 +0000 Erik http://www.ralree.info/2007/10/26/fun-with-browser-error-pages So, I though it would be interesting to mimic browser behavior with error pages. I decided I needed to make a page that looked exactly like the Firefox Server-not-found page. I managed to copy the source using Firebug, and I extracted the css out of the jar files on my system. Anyway, I ended up with some source for IE and some source for Firefox.

Test this in IE and Firefox

I left little invisible links in each one (search for ‘Supplies’ on the page). I also removed all the default javascript from the Firefox version and replaced the Try Again action with a simple reload one-liner.

Then, I just wrote some awesome PHP to take care of which one to load, and called it index.php:


<?php
if (preg_match('/MSIE/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
  readfile("errortest-ie.html");
} else {
  readfile("errortest-ff.html");
}
?>

And we’re done. Not bad, eh?

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