On 19.06.06 12:21, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > 64.233.173.67 - - [18/Jun/2006:14:03:11 -0400] > "GET /XXX/XXX/YYY.html#ZZZ > HTTP/1.1" 403 - "http://www.XXX.net/religion/XXX/XXX/YYY.html" > "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1 > .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" > > As you can see, good practice notwithstanding, there is a #YYY > in the GET. I have confirmed this by examining the incoming > packet captured with tethereal (ethereal-0.10.13-1.FC4.2) . > > Now the #ZZZ is legitimate in the sense that my YYY.html does > contain that hypertext. However, in my experience, browsers do > not normally send the #ZZZ, as explained above. > > My question is "how should I respond to it?" Here are choices: > > 1. Send 403 (Forbidden), which is what I do now. > 2. Strip the #ZZZ in my CGI and YYY.html normally. > 3. Something else I didn't think of. I vote for 1. > Additionally, I wonder why the #ZZZ appeared in the first place. a bug in the client I guess, I've seen this problem in some proxy server's mailing list... -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. It's now safe to throw off your computer. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx