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unhandled elmah exceptions crashing IIS #226

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
This is a followup to issue 72. I noticed in the mail module where a try/catch 
block was added to the mail module. I was wondering if there was a reason 
try/catch blocks were not added at all (or nearly all) entry points to prevent 
elmah from crashing IIS? Even the mailer only has a try/catch around a small 
patch of code, and not a catch-all handler.

We're wanting to add Elmah to our web app, but we can't allow it to crash IIS 
in our environment. I'm thinking of just adding try/catch blocks myself, so:

1. Are there reasons for not catching all unhandled exceptions in the elmah 
module(s)?

2. If I modify the elmah sources to do this, would you want me to send you a 
patch? Also, do you have an opinion on whether catch-all should be used, or 
should only specific exceptions be caught?

3. Any other thoughts/insights/suggestions you have into this issue is 
appreciated.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

IIS not crashing, but is.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by craigp...@gmail.com on 10 May 2011 at 7:18