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Per-Frode Pedersen
Per-Frode Pedersen

Reputation: 1027

Can't specify StatusMessage in HttpStatusCodeResult

I have the following Controller method.

public ActionResult Save(IEnumerable<Model> models)
{
    try
    {
        SaveModels(models);
    } 
    catch (ApplicationException ex)
    {
        return new HttpStatusCodeResult(500, "error");
    }
    return new EmptyResult();
}

This will always return "Internal Server Error" as HTTP status description, no matter what message I give to the constructor.

Fiddler output:

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Server: ASP.NET Development Server/10.0.0.0
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:44:09 GMT
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 3.0
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 0
Connection: Close

If I change the Status Code to 501 I get Not Implemented over the wire, same with 200 OK. And if I select a non-existant status code, like 535 it will just return the status code without any description. I can't see that I'm doing anything wrong according to the documentation and examples I've found from other people using this .

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 973

Answers (1)

Alpha
Alpha

Reputation: 7868

I just had the same issue and based on @Mikael's comment, I tried deploying my application to an actual IIS server, and yes, you can specify the actual Status Description and it will be returned to the client side.

Why is it different with Cassini, I'm not really sure about.

Upvotes: 2

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