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in reply to •Re: Re: 404 image errors
in thread 404 image errors
But would that still work if people are linking to my pictures from other sites?
The load on the server doesn't matter, but as I log all the hits to the 404 page, the log file was growing enormous in a short space of time and I had to keep cleaning it out. When I told off the person who was generating the most hits, he got really annoyed at me, like it was MY fault that he was doing it wrong. But now every time he links to the wrong url, he'll have a picture there to tell him how stupid he is :) |
•Re: Re: •Re: Re: 404 image errors
by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 11, 2002 at 13:43 UTC
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But would that still work if people are linking to my pictures from other sites?
Of course. The only difference between an internal redirect, and an external redirect to the same server,
is that the former is a lot easier load on your system.
An external redirect will change the visible URL in
the browser as well, but on an image, that's much harder
to see. The net effect is that all "missing images"
on your site will deliver the ugly picture as content, as controlled by the rest of the logic. (I did the same
thing myself once... putting up a COWBOYS SUCK graphic
to replace someone's deep-linked image from a Dallas Cowboy's fan-site.... they changed it pretty quick.)
The rest of the code should be left the same (although
only because I'm resisting the temptation to rewrite it).
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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Re: 404 image errors
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 11, 2002 at 13:45 UTC
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Eh, if you're logging actions, but the size of the generated
logs is a problem, wouldn't the simplest solution not be to
not generate those logs?
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I'm not logging actions, I'm just logging 404 errors - so that I can find out if there's anything going wrong.
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