404 File/Folder White List – REQUEST

We had to turn OFF the “404 Detection” recently because there was no way to specify that a given variable filename should be white listed. The following wildcard designation would have solved our problem:

*/xyz.gif

The xyz.gif is being used here only for illustration purposes since that wasn’t the actual filename.

Here is the situation. This is on a real estate website where a specific long url is being dynamically generated. It is always changing, depending upon the property. The xyz.gif name at the end of this long url was the only constant. Therefore, if we would have been able to specify a wildcard similar to what I have shown, we could leave the 404 detection enabled. We don’t have control of the software that is doing this, yet we would like to be able to use 404 detection.

Note: We saw how valuable the 404 detection is on another site that got locked out. By examining the Log, it was obvious that a robot was trying to penetrate the site. About 50 different probes were rapidly tried.

Please consider providing a white list capability that will allow us this functionality.
— Thanks, Roger

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