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A reference to a broken symbolic link results in a "broken" error response page.





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2004-04-21 16:45 -------
I have now studied that *other* issue mentioned at the end of my first post, and
have come to the conclusion that it's very likely to be related to the problem
initially posted. And therefore have decided to append it to this issue.

I also have raised the severity because, under unfortunate circumstances, it
could become - if not a security issue, then at least - an *integrity* issue.

If you follow the same steps as described in my initial posting after having
enabled the 'Customized Error Responses' feature you will notice that in the
case with the broken link the standard error response is displayed instead of
the customized one, one would expect.


Why this might lead to an *integrity* issue?

I noticed this problem in the process of "hiding" any error responses returned
due to non-authorized access attempts, e.g. made by a"harvesting" web-crawler
attempting to gain access to information by visiting a site via an it's
IP-Address, and which will reveal information, e.g. the email address of the
system's administrator, etc. And until this has been fixed it could, under
unfortunate circumstances, lead to the revealing of more information than
intended, by accident.


As always, feel free to ask for complimentary information concerning this.

Best Regards,
Rolf Sponsel

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