This morning I got this error trying to open my default home page at http://www.msn.com.

It was a transient error because I was able to get to the home page by clicking refresh after capturing this image. I was at first surprised that there was not a custom error page defined that would give me some marketing pitch like the one that a client of mine used to use. Whenever their site would go down we would redirect to a static page that said something like we were upgrading the site and thanking them for their patience.

What I really like about this error message is that it tells me nothing about what went wrong. I occasionally find error messages with database connection strings or other sensitive informtion being displayed. When I see things like that I just cringe because I know that sooner or later the wrong people will get that information and then the company will have bigger problems.