diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index ff0f1c542d5..fc541a016c4 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -106,7 +106,10 @@ Bug Fixes
  3. SOLR-9,SOLR-99: Tighten up sort specification error checking, throw
     exceptions for missing sort specifications or a sort on a non-indexed
     field. (Ryan McKinley via yonik)
-  
+    
+ 4. SOLR-145: Fix for bug introduced in SOLR-104 where some Exceptions
+    were being ignored by all "out of the box" RequestHandlers. (hossman)
+      
 Other Changes
  1.
 
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/RequestHandlerBase.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/RequestHandlerBase.java
index 5729bd404e1..b4a64505039 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/RequestHandlerBase.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/RequestHandlerBase.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package org.apache.solr.handler;
 
 import java.net.URL;
 
+import org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore;
 import org.apache.solr.core.SolrException;
 import org.apache.solr.core.SolrInfoMBean;
 import org.apache.solr.request.SolrParams;
@@ -74,12 +75,9 @@ public abstract class RequestHandlerBase implements SolrRequestHandler, SolrInfo
     try {
       U.setDefaults(req,defaults,appends,invariants);
       handleRequestBody( req, rsp );
-    } 
-    catch( SolrException se ) {
-      numErrors++;
-      throw se;
-    }
-    catch( Exception e) {
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      SolrException.log(SolrCore.log,e);
+      rsp.setException(e);
       numErrors++;
     }
   }
diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/solr/BasicFunctionalityTest.java b/src/test/org/apache/solr/BasicFunctionalityTest.java
index eecd755158c..fe1ef6ad800 100644
--- a/src/test/org/apache/solr/BasicFunctionalityTest.java
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/solr/BasicFunctionalityTest.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery;
 import org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore;
 import org.apache.solr.search.*;
+import org.apache.solr.handler.*;
 import org.apache.solr.request.*;
 import org.apache.solr.util.*;
 import org.apache.solr.schema.*;
@@ -143,6 +144,27 @@ public class BasicFunctionalityTest extends AbstractSolrTestCase {
             );
   }
 
+  public void testRequestHandlerBaseException() {
+    final String tmp = "BOO!";
+    SolrRequestHandler handler = new RequestHandlerBase() {
+        public String getDescription() { return tmp; }
+        public String getSourceId() { return tmp; }
+        public String getSource() { return tmp; }
+        public String getVersion() { return tmp; }
+        public void handleRequestBody
+          ( SolrQueryRequest req, SolrQueryResponse rsp ) {
+          throw new RuntimeException(tmp);
+        }
+      };
+    handler.init(new NamedList());
+    SolrQueryResponse rsp = new SolrQueryResponse();
+    h.getCore().execute(handler, 
+                        new LocalSolrQueryRequest(h.getCore(),
+                                                  new NamedList()),
+                        rsp);
+    assertNotNull("should have found an exception", rsp.getException());
+                        
+  }
 
   public void testMultipleUpdatesPerAdd() {