how to 404 parameters added to end of url?

[flicky]

For some reason, when you add parameters to any page of my site, it shows the page. I'd like it to 404. How do I do this?

example...

http://www.mysite.com/?test=whatever

that should 404 as it's not a valid url, but it shows mysite just fine.

same with

http://www.mysite.com/mypage/?test=whatever

That shows the page.

thanks
marc

[Dijkgraaf]

One solution would be something in your PHP to check that there is a query string ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) and if there when you don't expect one give a response of 403 (Forbidden).
A 403 response is better than a 404 as it tell the requester not to try it again.

[flicky]

But this isn't related to any php script... my server just won't ignore parameters added to the end of any URL... those parameters should be seen as foreign and return 404.

http://www.mysite.com/whatever/testing.html?junk=somegarbage

That doesn't exist... so should return 404 but just returns a 200 for

http://www.mysite.com/whatever/testing.html

[g1smd]

# Block ALL URLs with appended query string
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .
RewriteRule .* - [G]