It strikes me that you shouldn't be allowing those munged or extraneous URL variable values to cause CF to throw errors. For example, I'd never use something like the following
<cfparam name="url.detailedview" default="no" type="boolean"> Instead, I'd use <cfparam name="url.showdetails" default="no"> <cfif not IsBoolean(url.showdetails)> <cfset url.showdetails = "no"> </cfif> You might accomplish something similar by wrapping the first in a cftry/cfcatch, but this is so much simpler, why bother? If passing a numeric value directly from the url scope into a query, do something like <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="CF_SQL_NUMERIC" value="#Val(url.view)#"> Your query may come up empty, but at least you're not throwing errors because someone (or something, in your case) decided to get creative with the URL. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark W. Breneman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 10:21 AM Subject: Sloppy - Yahoo! Slurp throwing CFerrors > Does anyone else see CFerrors from Yahoo's spider / bot Slurp? We > monitor > all CFerrors that are generated on our servers. It seems that Yahoo! > Slurp > is responsible for over 60% of the errors per week that are thrown by > our > production webservers. It looks like Slurp is appending almost random > values > to the query strings. id=5%E2%84%91=2 or it may append an old URL var > that > has not been used for years like "view=archive". (This one throws a > "CF_SQL_NUMERIC" error now.) Does anyone know of a way I can get Slurp > to > stop hitting these pages with invalid URL vars? And still keep Slurp > indexing the site normaly? > > > > FYI I have a custom cf error page. After thinking about this for a > little > while I can see where my custom cf error page may not look like an error > page to Slurp. Any idea of what I can do to make Slurp understand it is > an > error? > > Thanks > > Mark W. Breneman > -Cold Fusion Developer > -Network Administrator > Vivid Media > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.vividmedia.com <http://www.vividmedia.com/> > 608.270.9770 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:196142 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
