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nmjudy - 2:35 am on Sep 5, 2009 (gmt 0)


Thanks for the response Jim. I've dug a little deeper into the problem of width=0.

It appears that the referring URL is coming from my own site, however, I've triple checked my link code and there are no badly formed links on the page.

These pages receive thousands of visitors per day. I've been trying to find a pattern of users that have this error generated. At first, I thought it was just IE 8 browsers that may be doing something quirky, but then I saw a couple of other browsers in the list as well.

A consistent factor is that IPs that are having the error generated are all from Australia - real traffic that will be heavy through Sunday. Numerous individual IPs are involved and numerous referring pages from my own site that supposedly include "width=0" at the end of the URL. I've tested in Firefox, IE and Safari for the same pages and don't generate an error. Australian visitors generating errors are using IE8, IE7 and Firefox.

Viewing the source code of these referring pages shows nothing amiss. What could append an attribute tag after an URL?


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