: solr errors come back as HTML instead of XM or JSON : : Is it possible to get the response to come back as XML or JSON, or at : least something I could show to an end user?
At the moment, Solr just relies on the Servlet Container to generate the error response, so you'd have to customize it at that level to get it formatted in XML or JSON. There is an open issue to make Solr generate the error responses directly so the ResponseWriters could format them (SOLR-141) but there hasn't been a lot of demand for it. -Hoss