unfortunately, Microsoft has added a clever new

   "feature" to Internet Explorer. If the text of

   an error's message is "too small", specifically

   less than 512 bytes, Internet Explorer returns

    its own error message. You can turn that off,

   but it's pretty tricky to find switch called

   "smart error messages". That means, of course,

   that short error messages are censored by default.

   IIS always returns error messages that are long

    enough to make Internet Explorer happy. The

   workaround is pretty simple: pad the error

   message with a big comment like this to push it

   over the five hundred and twelve bytes minimum.

   Of course, that's exactly what you're reading

   right now.