So it seems that the old code I had didn’t work in debug mode, although on the current CakePHP 1.2 RC2, I’m not even sure it works at all. However, I decided to take some time to revisit the code. Last time, I simply hacked up the missingAction and missingController calls and it felt kludgy. It looked kludgy.

This time I took a closer look at how the dispatch was being handled. Daniel Hofstetter made mentioned how using the error handler seemed inappropriate since it’s for handling errors. Unfortunately, the Dispatcher looks for a missing action or controller and if it can’t find them, it sends it off to the AppError class well before anything else [...]