Why no excpetion returned to browser when thrown from web service

[Tim Reynolds]

Team,
Hoping you can help. I have a web service I develop. In the code behind,
we throw an exception in some cases. When I run the webservice on my PC, the
exception is displayed in my browser.

However, when I run a test on this web service on a server it has been
deployed to no such expcetion returns to the screen - just the generic Page
Not Found error with HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error.

I have ran in debug & release mode on my pc. In both cases, I get the
exception message returned to browser. So it isn't the mode. Now I'm
guessing it is either IIS or IE setting. Who can help?

Much thanks,
Tim

[BillyLiu007]

By default. The detail error message will only be shown when you running on
local server. In your case, if you try to access your deployment server from
another machine, you can only see a 500 Error, unless you test on the
deployment server.

If you want the remote request can see the detail error page, you can switch
it on in your web.config. I can't remember which property to change. but you
look under the <debug> section or look for more information on debugging web
service from msdn library.
--
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"Tim Reynolds" wrote:

Team,
Hoping you can help. I have a web service I develop. In the code behind,
we throw an exception in some cases. When I run the webservice on my PC, the
exception is displayed in my browser.

However, when I run a test on this web service on a server it has been
deployed to no such expcetion returns to the screen - just the generic Page
Not Found error with HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error.

I have ran in debug & release mode on my pc. In both cases, I get the
exception message returned to browser. So it isn't the mode. Now I'm
guessing it is either IIS or IE setting. Who can help?

Much thanks,
Tim

[BillyLiu007]

By default. The detail error message will only be shown when you running on
local server. In your case, if you try to access your deployment server from
another machine, you can only see a 500 Error, unless you test on the
deployment server.

If you want the remote request can see the detail error page, you can switch
it on in your web.config. I can't remember which property to change. but you
look under the <debug> section or look for more information on debugging web
service from msdn library.
--
Can You?You Can.
"Tim Reynolds" wrote:

Team,
Hoping you can help. I have a web service I develop. In the code behind,
we throw an exception in some cases. When I run the webservice on my PC, the
exception is displayed in my browser.

However, when I run a test on this web service on a server it has been
deployed to no such expcetion returns to the screen - just the generic Page
Not Found error with HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error.

I have ran in debug & release mode on my pc. In both cases, I get the
exception message returned to browser. So it isn't the mode. Now I'm
guessing it is either IIS or IE setting. Who can help?

Much thanks,
Tim

[Deepak]

Hello
Please make the following change
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" />
in the web.config file so that you can see the exact error message on the
browser on your server

"BillyLiu007" wrote:

By default. The detail error message will only be shown when you running on
local server. In your case, if you try to access your deployment server from
another machine, you can only see a 500 Error, unless you test on the
deployment server.

If you want the remote request can see the detail error page, you can switch
it on in your web.config. I can't remember which property to change. but you
look under the <debug> section or look for more information on debugging web
service from msdn library.
--
Can You?You Can.
"Tim Reynolds" wrote:

Team,
Hoping you can help. I have a web service I develop. In the code behind,
we throw an exception in some cases. When I run the webservice on my PC, the
exception is displayed in my browser.

However, when I run a test on this web service on a server it has been
deployed to no such expcetion returns to the screen - just the generic Page
Not Found error with HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error.

I have ran in debug & release mode on my pc. In both cases, I get the
exception message returned to browser. So it isn't the mode. Now I'm
guessing it is either IIS or IE setting. Who can help?

Much thanks,
Tim

[Deepak]

Hello
Please make the following change
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" />
in the web.config file so that you can see the exact error message on the
browser on your server

"BillyLiu007" wrote:

By default. The detail error message will only be shown when you running on
local server. In your case, if you try to access your deployment server from
another machine, you can only see a 500 Error, unless you test on the
deployment server.

If you want the remote request can see the detail error page, you can switch
it on in your web.config. I can't remember which property to change. but you
look under the <debug> section or look for more information on debugging web
service from msdn library.
--
Can You?You Can.
"Tim Reynolds" wrote:

Team,
Hoping you can help. I have a web service I develop. In the code behind,
we throw an exception in some cases. When I run the webservice on my PC, the
exception is displayed in my browser.

However, when I run a test on this web service on a server it has been
deployed to no such expcetion returns to the screen - just the generic Page
Not Found error with HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error.

I have ran in debug & release mode on my pc. In both cases, I get the
exception message returned to browser. So it isn't the mode. Now I'm
guessing it is either IIS or IE setting. Who can help?

Much thanks,
Tim

[Tim Reynolds]

Thanks - but I tried <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" /> in the web.config on
the remote server. I tested the web service 2 ways 1) logged in to the
remote server via remote desktop & 2) from my pc - in both cases - same
result as previous - the Page Cannot Be displayed and the HTTP 500 - Internal
server error. It doesn't seem to matter if I am testing this web service
from the server directly or from my PC - either way the same results.

However, you pointed me in the right direction. I then tried "Off' instead
of remote only and achieved the desired result - finally my exception
displayed. Thanks for the tip.

Tim

"Deepak" wrote:

Hello
Please make the following change
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" />
in the web.config file so that you can see the exact error message on the
browser on your server

"BillyLiu007" wrote:

By default. The detail error message will only be shown when you running on
local server. In your case, if you try to access your deployment server from
another machine, you can only see a 500 Error, unless you test on the
deployment server.

If you want the remote request can see the detail error page, you can switch
it on in your web.config. I can't remember which property to change. but you
look under the <debug> section or look for more information on debugging web
service from msdn library.
--
Can You?You Can.
"Tim Reynolds" wrote:

Team,
Hoping you can help. I have a web service I develop. In the code behind,
we throw an exception in some cases. When I run the webservice on my PC, the
exception is displayed in my browser.

However, when I run a test on this web service on a server it has been
deployed to no such expcetion returns to the screen - just the generic Page
Not Found error with HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error.

I have ran in debug & release mode on my pc. In both cases, I get the
exception message returned to browser. So it isn't the mode. Now I'm
guessing it is either IIS or IE setting. Who can help?

Much thanks,
Tim

[Tim Reynolds]

Thanks - but I tried <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" /> in the web.config on
the remote server. I tested the web service 2 ways 1) logged in to the
remote server via remote desktop & 2) from my pc - in both cases - same
result as previous - the Page Cannot Be displayed and the HTTP 500 - Internal
server error. It doesn't seem to matter if I am testing this web service
from the server directly or from my PC - either way the same results.

However, you pointed me in the right direction. I then tried "Off' instead
of remote only and achieved the desired result - finally my exception
displayed. Thanks for the tip.

Tim

"Deepak" wrote:

Hello
Please make the following change
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" />
in the web.config file so that you can see the exact error message on the
browser on your server

"BillyLiu007" wrote:

By default. The detail error message will only be shown when you running on
local server. In your case, if you try to access your deployment server from
another machine, you can only see a 500 Error, unless you test on the
deployment server.

If you want the remote request can see the detail error page, you can switch
it on in your web.config. I can't remember which property to change. but you
look under the <debug> section or look for more information on debugging web
service from msdn library.
--
Can You?You Can.
"Tim Reynolds" wrote:

Team,
Hoping you can help. I have a web service I develop. In the code behind,
we throw an exception in some cases. When I run the webservice on my PC, the
exception is displayed in my browser.

However, when I run a test on this web service on a server it has been
deployed to no such expcetion returns to the screen - just the generic Page
Not Found error with HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error.

I have ran in debug & release mode on my pc. In both cases, I get the
exception message returned to browser. So it isn't the mode. Now I'm
guessing it is either IIS or IE setting. Who can help?

Much thanks,
Tim