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Provide a more helpful text on the 500 server error page.
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ietf/templates/500.html

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<h2>Internal Server Error.</h2>
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<p>The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete
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your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an
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error in a script used to generate the requested page.</p>
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<p class="error-text">
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The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete
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your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an
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error in a script used to generate the requested page. In case this
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was an overload problem or other temporary error, you may want to
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try again in a little while.
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</p>
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<p class="error-text">
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A failure report with details about what happened has been sent to the
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server administrators. It would be helpful if you would file a bug
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report with additional information at the
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<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/ietfdb/newticket">IETF database issue tracker</a>, too.
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</p>
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<p>Please contact <a href="mailto:webtools@ietf.org">webtools@ietf.org</a>.</p>
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<p class="error-text">
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If the problem hasn't been fixed in a timely manner,
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please contact <a href="mailto:ietf-action@ietf.org">ietf-action@ietf.org</a>.
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</p>
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{% endblock %}

static/css/base2.css

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.ietf-highlight-r { padding:0 2px;background:#ffa0a0;}
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.ietf-divider { background: #2647a0; color: white; font-size:116%; padding:0.5em 1em; }
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.error-text {
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font-size: 1.095em;
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width: 48em;
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}
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form .actions {
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margin-top: 20px;
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}

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