I've found that a lot of these issues are caused by either bots, or someone
linking to a webpage and made a typo. Most likely bots.

In your error reporting do you have anything that grabs the user agent of
the error? I've found that looking at user agents can sometime help me to
determine if it's a bot or not but you have to keep in mind that there are
definitely tricky bots out there that emulate real people.

One of the websites I maintain has around 800,000 pageviews a month. This
website also has an error reporting like yours and I've found that the
majority of them are just bots.

I would just make sure you take proper security precautions on all of your
code and you should be fine. 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Moore [mailto:dgmoor...@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 12:48 PM
To: cf-talk
Subject: Odd Code Showing up in URL


I recently added an <cferror> to my websites and it has helped me discover a
lot of issues I needed to fix. At the same time, I have some very odd code
showing up and didn't know if it is something I should address or is it
someone trying to hack into my websites. Here is an example:

http://www.oconeemed.org/index.cfm?PageID=21&ParentPageID=4&NavID=4&ServiceI
D=-1%27&PageText=off

You will notice the ServiceID of -1%27 which should be an integer. It also
did not come from a Search Engine, which is a whole other issue I have
noticed that I did not before.

I guess I am asking is if I should be concerned about this or is it just
some kind of oddity. I am noticing it showing up on many of the websites I
host.

Thank you in advance,

David G. Moore, Jr. 



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