[ic] Order profile check_opt not found

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (racke at linuxia.de):
> Steve Graham wrote:
> >> If it works 99% of the time it could be that the session is expired in the
> >> other 1%.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>           Racke
> > 
> > the following logs seems to indicate that:
> > 
> > .comcast.net nsession:comcast.net - [05/April/2009:19:42:49 -0500] cat 
> > /ord/basket.html Order profile check_opt not found
> > .comcast.net nsession:comcast.net - [05/April/2009:19:42:56 -0500] cat 
> > /ord/basket.html Order profile check_opt not found
> > .comcast.net eqnTGmzI:comcast.net - [05/April/2009:21:51:36 -0500] cat 
> > /ord/basket.html Order profile check_opt not found
> > .comcast.net eqnTGmzI:comcast.net - [05/April/2009:21:53:13 -0500] cat 
> > /ord/basket.html Order profile check_opt not found
> > .comcast.net eqnTGmzI:comcast.net - [05/April/2009:21:53:48 -0500] cat 
> > /ord/basket.html Order profile check_opt not found
> > .comcast.net DMhHPcmD:comcast.net - [05/April/2009:21:54:53 -0500] cat 
> > /ord/basket.html Order profile check_opt not found
> > .comcast.net DMhHPcmD:comcast.net - [05/April/2009:21:55:09 -0500] cat 
> > /ord/basket.html Order profile check_opt not found
> > .comcast.net DMhHPcmD:comcast.net - [05/April/2009:21:55:35 -0500] cat 
> > /ord/basket.html Order profile check_opt not found
> > .comcast.net DMhHPcmD:comcast.net - [05/April/2009:21:55:58 -0500] cat 
> > /ord/basket.html Order profile check_opt not found
> > .comcast.net DMhHPcmD:comcast.net - [05/April/2009:22:00:24 -0500] cat 
> > /ord/basket.html Order profile check_opt not found
> > .comcast.net DMhHPcmD:comcast.net - [05/April/2009:22:03:21 -0500] cat 
> > /ord/basket.html Order profile check_opt not found
> > 
> > any idea what settings in a browser would cause this?
> 
> Check which browser is causing this by correlating with Apache log file.

It is probably some sort of robot that didn't get caught by the robot
definitions.

> 
> In addition to that, I would move the profile from the page into one of the 
> profile files so it is always present.
> 

You can't really do that as it is malleable based on the options that
are in the product.

Just make a profile that always fails with:

__NAME__                            check_opt

expired=always_fail This page is expired. Try again.

__END__

That way, if someone does follow a bookmarked link, they will get
an error that makes some sense. Robots won't care.

-- 
Mike Heins
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
phone +1.765.328.4479  <mike at perusion.com>

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