Another option to stop this happening is to have them have a form at the start - they won't do the work until the form has been submitted... Stops the search engines bumping into them or WebTrends re-running stuff
Philip Arnold Technical Director Certified ColdFusion Developer ASP Multimedia Limited Switchboard: +44 (0)20 8680 8099 Fax: +44 (0)20 8686 7911 www.aspmedia.co.uk www.aspevents.net An ISO9001 registered company. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. ********************************************************************** > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Meredith-Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 22 May 2002 13:29 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Don't leave stuff lying around > > > This morning I got into work to discover >3000 error messages > generated > since 4:30 yesterday afternoon with more pouring in by the minute. > > I had something of a panic attack as the site has been running with no > errors for months. As it turned out, I had inadvertently left an old > "one time" CF script on the server which had rebuilt a stored > proc to a > now-redundant version and was easy enough to undo. > > What had done this? IP traces from the site's logs showed the request > to this rogue script coming from inside the client's gateway. > At first I > suspected someone there who didn't know what they were doing > had simply > been fiddling with the site, but as it turned out, they were running a > badly configured copy of webtrends which was itself requesting pages > that appear in the logfiles. It seems that Webtrends decided > to go and > check it out by requesting it - probably to ascertain its status code, > and in so doing invoked the stored procedure deletion / re-creation. > > Moral: Don't leave stuff lying around. > > -- > Regards; > > Richard Meredith-Hardy > ------------------------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mob: + 44 7771 526513 > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
