Thread:Project:Support desk/Are there forbidden character sequences that can cause 404 errors?/reply (2)

You are on the money. It has to be something wrong on dreamhost.

I put up an html file with only the magic characters:

http://pj.freefaculty.org/testbadfile.html

$ cat testbadfile.html drwxr

And guess what? When you browse http://pj.freefaculty.org/testbadfile.html

Not Found The requested URL /testbadfile.html was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I will see about reporting this to the server administrators.

Thanks for the idea.