That can happen if the host has been purged. A 404 return code is technically correct (there's no alternative for 'temporarily unavailable').
Agreed it would be nicer to have a more friendly message. It might be better even to suppress the link if it's not available, but that's problematic - what is/isn't available at the time the 1st page is generated might not be correct seconds on minutes later when you go to click on it. The core 'sorry charlie' message at http.c 2398 can be changed. It would take more than a small bit of work to differentiate between a request that LOOKS like a host (MAC or IP or name) and just garbage... so returning an extra explainitory line in the message saying "Unable to find a host named gargagerequestyoudweeb" is probably good enough, Note that if your browser is retarded in handling 404s, you'll get what you get. And as that's a general ntop routine, there's not much that can be done to change it all that much. Check the cvs in a little while. -----Burton > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike > Hunter > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 7:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Ntop] bug in "Last MAC Address/Router" field > > > Upon clicking on a host, under the "last mac address/router" tab, it gives > a link that results in this: > > The server cannot find the requested page (page expired or ntop > configuration ?). > > Received request: > > "GET /00_04_75_98_FB_C0.html HTTP/1.1" > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
