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 ==^================================================================
