Hello all,
I have noticed that on some of our websites users started to abuse the error displaying feature...
You can simply copy the URL and instead of the real error message, you can write your own...

Just like this:

original error


with custom text in URL
This is just annoying! More damage can be done when the messages are like this (and read below):

you got the idea right? :)

The biggest issue here for us right now is that those links got shared on Facebook/Twitter and other users started to flame the company websites and us as the devs of the website...

Is there any fix that we can apply to hide those errors, or maybe make them visible only to admin or something else?

Cheers for the answer!

Regards,
W.

Hey Cathal, thank you for your fast reply.
I thought so, but I wasn't 100% sure, if there is any other way around...

I made a quick and dirty workaround of this problem using simple jQuery script which hides the error message, so for developers it's still there but not visible for normal users.

<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
   var tmp = $(".NormalRed").text();
   if (tmp == "A critical error has occurred.") {
      $(".NormalRed").parent().hide();
      $(".NormalRed").parent().prev().hide();
  }
});
</script>

I added this JS code to Default.aspx file, you can also put it in the skin probably.
I could use .remove() insted of .hide() but then you won't see if there are any real errors besides in the even viewer.

What do you think? Any other ways around this?

Regards, W.