A little help from the techies...

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:48 pm

I've just tried to register one of our websites with MaCafee site advisor, and got this response:

It appears that the Web site blahblahblah.org/ is returning an HTTP 200 status response code in the header of 404 pages.

We cannot verify a Web site that is configured this way because it allows anyone to verify themselves as the owner of your site. Please update your Web site server configuration to return 404 status codes in the headers for pages that do not exist. Once your site is configured this way then you can return and request a file name verification.

Anyone?

And please type slowly

a1 · Post by a1 » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:43 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:I've just tried to register one of our websites with MaCafee site advisor, and got this response:
It appears that the Web site blahblahblah.org/ is returning an HTTP 200 status response code in the header of 404 pages.

We cannot verify a Web site that is configured this way because it allows anyone to verify themselves as the owner of your site. Please update your Web site server configuration to return 404 status codes in the headers for pages that do not exist. Once your site is configured this way then you can return and request a file name verification.

Anyone?

And please type slowly

i wouldnt bother with it, it'll probably get mislabelled as a badware site even if it (yours) isnt .. i've read stories of this happening. and most people turn off these pre-browsing 'features' in AV suites anyway as they slow down browsing (coz its checking loads of sites in the background).

leave all the 'good/bad websites shit' upto peoples browsers and google/yahoo/searchengines .

if yours isnt , why jump thru these hoops to prove its not !?

If it gets blacklisted by google or a browsers inbuilt blacklist, thats when to go "shit, google's/'x browser' is warning against my site." and from what i know that is sortable.

dont panic about stuff like this till things go wrong.

Muse · Post by **Muse** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:25 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:I've just tried to register one of our websites with MaCafee site advisor, and got this response:
It appears that the Web site blahblahblah.org/ is returning an HTTP 200 status response code in the header of 404 pages.

We cannot verify a Web site that is configured this way because it allows anyone to verify themselves as the owner of your site. Please update your Web site server configuration to return 404 status codes in the headers for pages that do not exist. Once your site is configured this way then you can return and request a file name verification.

Anyone?

And please type slowly

HTTP 200 status is the response given for a web page when it is ok, i.e no problems, HTTP 404 is the response given when the page can not be found. Your problem is that it is giving ok responses on pages that can not be found. I used wikipedia when I revised them all in Jan for an exam, it explains what all the HTTP errors mean the link is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes fixing the problem however I can't help with.