How to simulate an HTTP 500 error on my ASP.NET app?

Question

I want to simulate this error so I can check a generic error page is displayed, not the HTTP 500 one, in light of the recent security vulnerability.

We include special processing in the site itself for 404 and 403 so I want to make sure that errors without special processing work too.

Answer 1

throw new Exception();

This will generate a HTTP 500

Answer 2

Hi,

I think you can do this by overriding page init and adding the 500 status code to the response like the following:

protected void Page_Init(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Response.Clear();
    Response.StatusCode = 500;
    Response.End(); 
}

Enjoy!