[thelist] RE: denial of service? or a badly written script?

[noah]

Thanks David and Pete.

At 07:07 AM 08/04/2002, Pete Riddle wrote:
>My hunch is that you have a custom 404 page for the
>site, and it has a relative reference to main.css.
>
>Thus, when someone requests a invalid URL, if your
>custom 404 page cannot find the relative main.css, it
>generates another 404, etc.
>
>If you change your reference to /tools/main.css, that
>shold take care of it.

That make absolute sense, but would never have occurred to me. I've changed
the reference to the stylesheet to be absolute and undenied (?) the IP
address in question.

Thanks very much,
Noah