The solution would be to validate your url variables so that passing such a
string wouldn't generate an error.
You could of course also just ignore errors within your error template when
cgi.query_string contains http://
<cfif not findnocase('http://', cgi._query_string)>
send the email
</cfif>
..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.
Bobby Hartsfield
http://acoderslife.com
http://cf4em.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Mosh Teitelbaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:26 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: URLs being appended to query string
Mark Gaulin wrote:
> This is probably an attempt to generate link spam. It sucks, but other
> than taking measures to reduce the error notifications there may not be
> much you can actually do about it.
Paul Vernon wrote:
> You aren't alone. We're seeing exactly the same and have been for a couple
of months.
> Not sure what the purpose of it is. It could be F***wits trying to inject
URLs into
> site content I guess to increase their back-links to game the Search
Engines.
Mark, Paul:
I had figured as much but was hoping there'd be some way around it. We
launched a site about 2 weeks back and within 2 days or so, started
receiving notifications from that site as well. None of these sites have
world-editable pages so I'm not sure what they're trying to do here. The
frequency of the occurrences, and the constantly changing URL and client IP,
suggests a bot.
Thanks for the help. As much as it sucks, it's "good" to hear this is
happening elsewhere as well. I'll have to revamp the error notification
system to ignore this sort of error.
Thanks.
--
Mosh Teitelbaum
evoch, LLC
WWW: http://www.evoch.com/
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