/gbook/mailto& 404 not found

[Junefly]

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I am getting the 404 showing in the logs for /gbook/mailto& Is this somehow connected to <a href="mailto&#. in gbook.php??

Thanks Junefly

[Klemen]

Hi,

You can simply ignore those errors. The thing is GBook somewhat encodes the e-mails posted to prevent them being correctly read by spam bots (software that searches for e-mails throughout the internet and adds them to SPAM databases for spamming).

So instead of the regular <a href="mailto:..."> link you get <a href="mailto& #58;..."> address. And some robots may read this as a link to a page on your site instead of e-mail address and of course they get a 404 error for not finding the page (that is actually the entire idea behind it, SPAM bots read e-mail addresses as normal addresses and not e-mails, therefor they don't add it to their databases for spamming).

Gosh, that sounded a but complicated, but I hope you get the idea You can just ignore those messages.

Regards

[Junefly]

Hi,

You can simply ignore those errors. The thing is GBook somewhat encodes the e-mails posted to prevent them being correctly read by spam bots (software that searches for e-mails throughout the internet and adds them to SPAM databases for spamming).

So instead of the regular <a href="mailto:..."> link you get <a href="mailto& #58;..."> address. And some robots may read this as a link to a page on your site instead of e-mail address and of course they get a 404 error for not finding the page (that is actually the entire idea behind it, SPAM bots read e-mail addresses as normal addresses and not e-mails, therefor they don't add it to their databases for spamming).

Gosh, that sounded a but complicated, but I hope you get the idea You can just ignore those messages.

Regards

Great.. I kind of thought that may be the case as I am also getting 404s for a couple of java programs that refrence html pages (I guess in their script) Webmasters.com does not support java but they work fine. While I am here.. Webmasters is upgrading to:
Apache 1.3.34
PHP 5.1.2
OpenSSL 0.9.8a
libmysqlclient 5.0.18
ionCube PHP Loader v3.1.9
Zend Optimizer v2.6.2
Fileinfo 1.0.3
dbx 1.1.0
This means nothing to me, but I would like to know if your programs will continue to work.

Thanks for the great programs and the great support.
Junefly

[Klemen]

I don't see any obvious problems, wait for the update and see if everything still works