cf throws "RECRUITER is undefined in URL" error yet then reports query string =type=byrecruiter&recruiter=271

[Nick Way]

hi guys

i keep getting this error (when certain spiders crawl my site)

Diagnostics Element RECRUITER is undefined in URL. <br>The error occurred on line 123.
Message Element RECRUITER is undefined in URL.
QueryString type=byrecruiter&recruiter=271


i dont get it

the error says url.recruiter isnt defined then clearly reports that the querystring contains that very variable??

the only thing that i can imagine is that if the query string was "type=byrecruiter&recruiter=271" instead of "type=byrecruiter&recruiter=271" (ie. '&' not '&') then presumably there'd be no way that could throw an error

personally when i code urls into links etc i use '&' not & but i *think* the spiders that are generating the errors must be changing & into & (which doesnt seem unreasonable to me if they want to do that) yet this seems to be throwing cf off

any thoughts would be very gratefully received - thanks guys

TIA

Nick

[Nick Way]

bump

[Newsgroup_User]

happysailingdude wrote:
> bump

& does not throw off CF. That is what you have to do, if you build
XHTML strict compliant pages. I do it all the time for mine and
ColdFusion handles it just fine.

My guess would be it is some nature of the spider but why the error
shows the get variable, I can't explain.