How do I return HTTP error code without default template in Tornado?

Question

I am currently using the following to raise a HTTP bad request:

raise tornado.web.HTTPError(400)

which returns a html output:

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Answer 1

Also you can override get_error_html method in your handler. For example:

import tornado.web
class CustomHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def get_error_html(self, status_code, **kwargs);
        self.write("
404!
")
...
def get(self):
...