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Re: [ic] Buy Button Seems to Create Bad Robot Error and redirects to local host
At 09:34 AM 3/2/01 , you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I am still trying to tackle a buy button problem on the results.html page
>in the construct demo. The buy button on my results(.html) page when
>clicked on product "11014" in Netscape creates the following URL:
>
>http://127.0.0.1/process.html?mv_session_id=DyjixJQd&mv_click=munge_quantit
>y&mv_separate_items=0&mv_username=&mv_doit=refresh&mv_oi1=11014&mv_order_qu
>antity=%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3
>d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3d%3
>d%3d%3d%3d1&mv_order_item=11014
Why are you generating that URL?
>A couple of interesting things here:
>
>1) first the number of "%d3" in the URL is 51. That happens to be one
>more than the 50 limit set on the RobotLimit directive in my catalog.cfg file.
>
>2) when ever I do this, I get the error in the logs saying: westerbeke
>/cgi-bin/westerbeke/process.html WARNING: POSSIBLE BAD ROBOT. 51 accesses
>with no 30 second pause. (that relates to the number above)
Yup.
>3) Notice also that the host URL resolves out to my local host 127.0.0.1
>instead of my standard URL.
That's the robot defense. This is a feature.
>4) This does not happen in IE. IE does not work either, however when I
>use IE I get sent to the expired.html page.
Don't know, but probably related.
>I have read over the RobotLimit messages in the archive and it appears
>that increasing this limit will only increase the amount of time needed
>before I get the error.
RobotLimit is the maximum number of single page loads within 30
seconds. Why you have a URL that creates 51 accesses, I can't imagine.
>Do you think that the setting for RobotLimit is the problem?
>Any ideas why I get two different erroneous responses from two different
>browsers? The responses do not "seem" related.
>
>Why would this error resolve out to 127.0.0.1? Is there a setting I
>should change in my catalog.cfg?
>
>Thanks for any input.
>
>Christopher VanOosterhout
>
Ryan Hertz tel 800-645-BAIT
Webmaster fax 520-645-2588
Advertising Director http://www.baits.com
Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits, Inc. mailto:rhertz@baits.com
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