Many spiders/bots that crawl the web for the search engines blow up when they hit the ? in your urls. In FB many people are using what are called SES (search engine safe) urls now. Basically instead of index.cfm?fuseation=this.that you will see things like index.cfm/fuseaction/this.that/index.htm that will make it work. I have also written a udf to encrypt the url and make them search engine safe and it is available off of http://loathe.mine.nu, and will be available off of CFLib once I stop being lazy.
Tim Heald ACP/CCFD :) Application Development www.schoollink.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Lurie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 12:08 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Spider gets stuck on site...? > > > Hi all, > > I've got a site using CF 5 and a content management system: > http://www.gama.org > > Somehow, a spider that comes to the site is munging the URL query strings > and generating errors - lots of errors. They look like this: > > 06:42:57 - Error > 24.90.66.90, RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3, ODBC Error Code = 07001 (Wrong > number of > parameters) > [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]COUNT field incorrect > Hint: The cause of this error is usually that your query contains a > reference to a field which does not exist. You should verify that > the fields > included in your query exist and that you have specified their names > correctly. > SQL = "SELECT nodeName FROM nodes WHERE nodeID=5?fuseaction=home&nodeID=5" > Data Source = "GAMADB" > Date/Time: 04/25/02 06:42:57 > Browser: RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3 > Remote Address: 24.90.66.90 > Query String: fuseaction=home&nodeID=5?fuseaction%3Dhome%26nodeID%3D5 > > > Overall it's not a major worry for us, but if bots are choking does that > mean the site isn't getting spidered? Is there some bug in my CMS > that I've > missed?... > > Thanks for your help, > > Ian > > > Portent Interactive > Helping clients build customer relationships on the web since 1995 > Consulting, design, development, measurement > http://www.portentinteractive.com > Talk with us: http://projects.portentinteractive.com > > ______________________________________________________________________ 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/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
