Saturday, July 16th, 2005, 4:38 am
Microsoft Garbage
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Bill Gates arrested in his younger days (photo in public domain)
eople without hands-on experience with site management ought to know that Microsoft attempt to ‘re-invent’ the Web by introducing a set of Windows binaries and then requesting them from sites all across the open Web.
The consequence: errors get raised in every site that is not powered by Windows.
Such files include:
/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll/MSOffice/cltreq.asp(Office)/_vti_pvt/service.pwd(Frontpage — grey area and an illegal password request)
On a roughly daily bases, my error logs will list these files. So, I have just re-directed requests for all such files to microsoft.com/eat_your_own_garbage
This shifts the errors over to Microsoft’s own domain and takes up their own bandwidth. If enough people take similar steps, the folks at microsoft.com will soon get the message, which will ‘bubble’ up their error log tables.
There are previous, contextually-related items on:
- MSNBot causing havoc to Linux servers and
- ways in which Internet Explorer breaks the Web
July 16th, 2005 at 10:55 pm
Haha! Don’t get mad, get even….