Article ID: 192655
Article Last Modified on 8/22/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft FrontPage 98 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q192655
SYMPTOMS
The following error may occur in the system event log:
[Source] FrontPage 3.0
[Description]
Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions Error 60007. "Cannot
interpret a browser image map query. Queries must be in the
form x=x,y=y"
This error occurs on a Windows NT Server computer with Internet
Information Server running FrontPage 98 Server Extensions. This
error also occurs on UNIX systems in the system log, but will be
formatted differently.
CAUSE
There are several potential causes of this problem:
- Web spiders attempting to index the site
that do not understand
image maps.
- Web spiders that index all areas of the image, including areas
outside the image map.
- Malformed browser requests also cause this error.
RESOLUTION
This problem has been fixed in the FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions. It is
available for download from
To resolve this problem, upgrade the Web server to the FrontPage 2000
Server Extensions.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in FrontPage 98 for
Windows.
The third-party products discussed here are manufactured by
vendors independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or
otherwise, regarding these products' performance or reliability.
WORKAROUND
Use one of the following workarounds to resolve this problem:
- Ignore this error message. It does not
indicate a problem or
misconfiguration of the server or the FrontPage Server
Extensions. It is commonly seen in server log files,
particularly those with a high number of hits.
-or-
- Use NCSA, CERN, or Netscape server side image maps, or use
client side image maps.
-or-
- Use a Robots.txt file to ban Web crawlers from each _vti_bin
directory on the Web site.
Additional query words: image map harvest crawler lycos imagemap
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