Which HTTP Status Codes to cover for MVC error handling

Question

I\'m currently developing custom error pages in my error handling code for my MVC application. But I\'m unclear as to which HTTP status codes I\'m meant to cover.

Answer 1

An interesting question, IMHO.

These three errors (403, 404 and 500) are the most common errors that can happen to the real user accessing your site with a standard browser.

On other hand, the HTTP standard was written for both server and agent developers in order to define how both sides should operate. Naturally, the standard browsers like IE, Chrome, Firefox, etc. as well as the standard robots like Google or Bing bots correctly fulfill the requirements, but some proprietary written agent may send a malformed request, and the standard provides the set of codes the server should send in this situation. For example, if the Content-Length field is missed the server returns the error code 411. However, you shouldn't provide user-friendly pages for such a situation.

The code 408 (Request timeout) is explained in the standard as following:

"The client did not produce a request within the time that the server was prepared to wait. The client MAY repeat the request without modifications at any later time."

and it also not a case you should make user-friendly page for.

To make a long story short, don't worry :)