ASP.NET Global.asax error logger
You probably know that you should never show ASP.NET error message to the client. The method below should be placed in Global.asax, so it would send an error notification to the developer in case of any error. Email is going to have details of an exception, URL of the page, referer page, IP address of the client, Form and Session values, an user name of a logged user if logged in. The response will be transferred to the general error page, which not gonna have any details of an actual exception. If the error page has an error ( it happens if the masterpage has an error) then the method simply prints an error message using Response.Write.
void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// Code that runs when an unhandled error occurs
string testEnvironment = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["isTestEnvironment"];
if (testEnvironment == "0")
{
Exception ex = Server.GetLastError();
if (ex is HttpException && ex.InnerException is ViewStateException)
{
Response.Redirect(Request.Url.AbsoluteUri)
return
}
StringBuilder theBody = new StringBuilder();
theBody.Append("URL: " + Request.Url + "\n");
theBody.Append("Referer: " + Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_REFERER"] + "\n");
theBody.Append("IP: " + Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_HOST"] + "\n");
theBody.Append("Error Message: " + ex.ToString() + "\n");
if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
theBody.Append("User: " + User.Identity.Name + "\n");
else
theBody.Append("User is not logged in." + "\n");
theBody.Append("Form Values: " + "\n");
foreach (string s in Request.Form.AllKeys)
{
if (s != "__VIEWSTATE")
theBody.Append(s + ":" + Request.Form[s] + "\n");
}
theBody.Append("Session Values: " + "\n");
foreach (string s in Session.Keys)
theBody.Append(s + ":" + Session[s] + "\n");
System.Net.Mail.MailMessage email = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();
email.IsBodyHtml = false;
email.From = new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("errors@karpach.com", "ErrorManager");
email.To.Add(new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("errornotification@karpach.com", "Developer"));
email.Subject = Request.Url.ToString().Split('/')[2] + " has ASP.NET error";
email.Body = theBody.ToString();
try
{
System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient emailProvider = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient();
emailProvider.Send(email);
}
catch (Exception anException)
{
}
finally
{
if (Request.Url.Segments[Request.Url.Segments.Length - 1].ToLower() != "error.aspx")
Response.Redirect("~/error.aspx?msg=4");
else
{
Response.Write(@"We encountered an internal error. We apologize for any inconvenience
but know that our staff gets emailed EVERY error that occurs so that we can solve it promptly.");
Response.End();
}
}
}
}
Posted on March 19, 2008 by Viktar Karpach
