I don't think using 404 headers would work, since it is not a missing page, but a bad URL parameter. Using 500 server error header would be much closer to what I want, I think.
How would one go about sending a 500 server error header at the top of a custom error page? I assume it is more than just putting 500 server error in the title tag. Thanks! Mark W. Breneman -Cold Fusion Developer -Network Administrator Vivid Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vividmedia.com 608.270.9770 -----Original Message----- From: Mark Drew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 11:36 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Sloppy - Yahoo! Slurp throwing CFerrors Generally by thworing 404 headers would do it I would think that tells it that the page that it is asking for does not exist On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:21:42 -0600, Mark W. Breneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone else see CFerrors from Yahoo's spider / bot Slurp? We > monitor all CFerrors that are generated on our servers. It seems that > Yahoo! Slurp is responsible for over 60% of the errors per week that > are thrown by our production webservers. It looks like Slurp is > appending almost random values to the query strings. id=5%E2%84%91=2 > or it may append an old URL var that has not been used for years like > "view=archive". (This one throws a "CF_SQL_NUMERIC" error now.) Does > anyone know of a way I can get Slurp to stop hitting these pages with > invalid URL vars? And still keep Slurp indexing the site normaly? > > FYI I have a custom cf error page. After thinking about this for a > little while I can see where my custom cf error page may not look like > an error page to Slurp. Any idea of what I can do to make Slurp > understand it is an error? > > Thanks > > Mark W. Breneman > -Cold Fusion Developer > -Network Administrator > Vivid Media > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.vividmedia.com <http://www.vividmedia.com/> > 608.270.9770 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:195768 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
