[ic] outragous error logs - search string must be 1 character

Michael Goldfarb interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Thu Oct 3 14:41:02 2002


>Hi all, 
>
>this is weird.  I am getting these error logs every few seconds.
>I just noticed it and my error.log was over 10MB from the 
>last couple of months of this happening.
>
>I have tried all sorts of combinations of using the site as a
>user or admin, and I *never* cause these entries myself, so
>I have no idea who or what is causing it.  any ideas?
>
>this is long, im sorry, but I wanted you to see the patterns:
>[begin error log snip]
>
>64.12.96.10 pCAQxgoA:64.12.96.42 - [03/October/2002:11:22:59 -0500]
>ffstore /cgi-bin/ffstore.cgi/scan/ff-header_03-over.gif search error:
>Search strings must be at least 1 characters.
>> You had no search string specified.
>> 
>.64.12.96.233 pCAQxgoA:64.12.96.42 - [03/October/2002:11:23:05 -0500]
>ffstore /cgi-bin/ffstore.cgi/scan/ff-header_04-over.gif search error:
>Search strings must be at least 1 characters.
> You had no search string specified.
> 

We had this same issue a few months ago and our issue was caused by a
faulty preLoad statement for mouse-over images.

Again, I do not know if this is your problem, but if you do have a
preLoad statement on your pages try removing it and see if that stops
the errors from appearing in the log.

Once we narrowed that down to being the cause for our errors, we just
added a "/" before the preload statements and that stopped the problem.