I get emailed when errors happen. If I get an unusual number of errors from someone, I go into IIS and block their IP address. I've had to do this a few times.
Steve Nelson Steve Bryant wrote: > One thought on that... > > I generally have my errors emailed to me as well. However, I am reading > through "Hackproofing ColdFusion" and the author suggests that some hackers > will find error pages (the ones with the user friendly error) and hit them > repeatedly. The goal here is to overwhelm the mailserver. It is based on > the assumption the error will be emailed to a system admin. If they can > cause a massive number of hits to the page then they can crash your mailserver. > > I haven't figured out a good solution for this yet. The book probably has > an idea for this and I just haven't read that far yet. Apparently if you > are logging errors instead of emailing them, it can still cause problems. > > Speaking of, the book just came out and so far it is really good. The > majority of the stuff in there is pretty common sense, but it has enough > new stuff (to me anyway) like the above to be well worth the money. I > highly recommend it! (I don't know the author or anything). > > At 08:35 AM 5/31/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >Add this into index.cfm > > > ><cferror type="EXCEPTION" template="act_error.cfm"> > > > >Then I usually make act_error email me an error of what's going on and at > >the end I cflocate to home.error and it shows a friendly error page. Now > >keep in mind since I cflocate to a fb3 path if there is something wrong with > >the core files, like say I accidentlly delete them, technically it would > >keep emailing me, but if I did something stupid enough to damage fb3 I > >deserve to get tons of email becuase my site is completely broken. > > > >Robert Everland III > >Dixon Ticonderoga > >Web Developer Extraordinaire > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Yudi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 8:17 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Global Error Trapping with CFERROR > > > > > >Hi, > >Do anybody know how to create cferror in fusebox 3 ? > >I put the following code on application.cfm > ><cferror type="exception" > > exception="any" > > template="dsp_MsgErrors.cfm" > > > > >And I created dsp_MsgErrors.cfm at root site. > >If I don't use fusebox 3 this code working well. > > > >Thank you > > > >Yudi > ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrFMa.bV0Kx9 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
