There is no easy way to catch such exception unfortunately. What I do is either override the OnError method at the page level or the Application_Error in global.asax, then check if it was a Max Request failure and, if so, transfer to an error page.
protected override void OnError(EventArgs e) .....
private void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (GlobalHelper.IsMaxRequestExceededException(this.Server.GetLastError()))
{
this.Server.ClearError();
this.Server.Transfer("~/error/UploadTooLarge.aspx");
}
}
It’s a hack but the code below works for me
const int TimedOutExceptionCode = -2147467259;
public static bool IsMaxRequestExceededException(Exception e)
{
// unhandled errors = caught at global.ascx level
// http exception = caught at page level
Exception main;
var unhandled = e as HttpUnhandledException;
if (unhandled != null && unhandled.ErrorCode == TimedOutExceptionCode)
{
main = unhandled.InnerException;
}
else
{
main = e;
}
var http = main as HttpException;
if (http != null && http.ErrorCode == TimedOutExceptionCode)
{
// hack: no real method of identifying if the error is max request exceeded as
// it is treated as a timeout exception
if (http.StackTrace.Contains("GetEntireRawContent"))
{
// MAX REQUEST HAS BEEN EXCEEDED
return true;
}
}
return false;
}