A.P. Lawrence

File does not exist error from Microsoft Save As

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Tue Feb 15 22:45:19 2005 File does not exist error from Microsoft Save As

Recently I've been doing a lot of clean up and maintenance work on this site; fixing up errors, writing redirect rules to fix problems from referring sites, etc. Because of this, I've been spending more time looking at the error logs than I usually do.

I have been seeing a LOT of errors similar to this:

[Tue Feb 15 22:29:29 2005] [error] [client 65.96.14.162] File does
not exist: /usr/local/www/vhosts/vps.pcunix.com/htdocs/Bofcusm/ksh
history recall --Re Command Line Recall_files, referer:
http://aplawrence.com/Bofcusm/161.html

If I trace that back in the access_log, I'd find that the person was viewing (in this case) http://aplawrence.com/Bofusm/161.html

If you look at the error and examine the page, you'll see that the 161.html was replaced with the words from the page title tag plus "_files". As you would expect, that's an error, but I couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Finally I posted to comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html and a sharp-eyed Dave Patton noticed the "_files" and suggest that it might be due to "Save As, Web Page Complete". Sure enough, if I do that with IE, this annoying error appears in my logs.

Aren't the Microsoft bunch just the grandest programmers ever? Gosh, if they are this sharp just saving a page, imagine how brilliant their security measures must be..

So, Microsoft, I get to thank you again: spam from compromised systems fills up my mailbox, and your incompetence now helps fill up my weblogs. Microsoft's motto: what kind of junk do you want today?

Psst - Wanna work for yourself?

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