response.setStatus on Faces page

[r4nd7263]

I want to setup a 404 error page in Faces.  I went with the redirect-on-error approach because it's a requirement.

So in my web.xml I have

<error-page>
        <error-code>404</error-code>
        <location>/srv/ErrorRedirect?url=/error/404.faces</location>
    </error-page>

That works fine.  But I also want to return 404.faces with 404 response status code.  So I added

<%response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND); %>

to the top 404.jsp

Now the returned status code is correct, but it returns a blank page.  My backing beans are still instantiated, but looks like it skipped component tree rendering.  How do I make this work?  Any thoughts would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Using RichFaces 3.3.2 SR1 with MyFaces 1.2.8

[r4nd7263]

Still unresolved.  Any idea would be appreciated.  I am going to post the question to MyFaces mailing list.

[nbelaevski]

Hi Rand,

I wonder whether this can be caused by infinite redirect. Have you tried specifying page address directly, without /srv/ErrorRedirect?

[r4nd7263]

Thanks for the reply.  That is not the case, but helpful.  It remained me that I could use a filter to set the status, which is a better solution and it works fine now.