One last bit on the fake folder front - more of a philosophical question, not techie per se -
Like I stated before, clients can create a mini-site and give it a code, which is used as the folder name. And then they can delete that site, deleting the folder that was created for it, and then web crawlers come along and cause errors. Meh. Going the 410 route over the 404 route, to head off the crawlers, makes sense. The only thing I'm concerned about now is re-use of site codes. Say a client creates a site named 'joe', uses it for a while. Crawlers sniff it out and index it. Client deletes site 'joe' later on, crawlers sniff through, get 410'd, quit sniffing. Another client comes along, creates a site named 'joe', re-using that code. If the 410 page did the job, the crawlers aren't coming back to that site. So now, I'm wondering if I should be using 410, or just stick with 404. Or, if there's a way to put a timer on the "stay away bug" nature of the 410 header...? Say, set it for a month...? Would a second cfheader with name="expires" and value=some date in the future do the trick, as far as the crawlers go? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:288846 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
