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Re: [cobalt-users] Test 404 Response? Anyone seen this?



On Sat, 5 May 2001, Wayne Sagar wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I've been seeing this in all my sites stats reports..  
> 
> /test404response1134905089.html 
> 
> apparantly someone checking for some sort of vulnerablity?

no, it's  some lame search engine spider checking to see if you return
real 404 pages or redirect to some other place (which makes it impossible
for the spider to detect pages that aren't available anymore and delete
them from the search engine index)

The odd random number is to prevent caching//

gsh