Based on the condition, I want to send a 400 (infact any code other than 200(Status OK)) error code back from my Asp.net page.
if(Failed)
{
Context.Response.TrySkipIisCustomErrors = true;
Context.Response.ClearContent();
Context.Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.BadRequest;
HttpContext.Current.ApplicationInstance.CompleteRequest();
Context.Response.End();
}
I have this code in PageLoad method. But unfortunately this does not work if I have the If statement above (And yes the code inside the If statement is executed, seen this in debugging)
But when I place the entire code
Context.Response.TrySkipIisCustomErrors = true;
Context.Response.ClearContent();
Context.Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.BadRequest;
HttpContext.Current.ApplicationInstance.CompleteRequest();
Context.Response.End();
directly in PageLoad without any other code preceeding these lines, I get back the response code, this is weird.
I have also tried using HTTPModule but the same.
I am not understanding why when any other line of code is executed prior to setting response code then the response is not set, has any one faced this.
But I do get the response content cleared.
NEVERMIND
Never mind.
There were two causes to this issue:
One was localhost didnt throw the required error for HTTPREquest status code and when deployed to a IIS Site on server, Everything looked good.
Second was I was automating the test to check programatically using HttpWebRequest. And to the request object I had forgotten to send the request header information as I am making decision based on request headers.
All in all, the lines of code is great.
