DRAFT - THIS SERVICE IS NOT YET AVAILABLE

About

The sorry service provides an error message when a site is down (i.e. OS patching). It does not provide error messages for any other types of error (i.e. page not found).

The new sorry service is based upon some conventions that have existed in the past and provides the opportunity for having more generic and custom sorry pages.

What's Changed

In the past sorry pages have had the URL of http://idstatic.cit.cornell.edu/[hostname].sorryservices/. The replacement URL will be http://sorry.hosting.cornell.edu/[hostname].sorryservices/. The old URLs will continue to work, but users are encouraged to update configurations to use the new URLs.

What's New

The new sorry service is built to better integrate with the Hardware Load Balancer (HWLB). In the past most hosting sites would be redirected to http://jujuba.cit.cornell.edu:8080/sorry/sorry.cgi?error=500.  This is not a very friendly looking URL.  Instead there are two methods for creating a sorry page.

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