[cutler]

The page contains a "This content is currently unavailable" notice but the fact that it's been archived as index.cfm suggests there was once a Coldfusion page containing content. One complicating factor is that, although I don't know Coldfusion intimately, I understand index.cfm often operates the way index.php does in older PHP frameworks, ie. as the root of a query string for all the routes in the site.

[nickclaw]

The archive.org entry for 2012 is orange, indicating it was a 404 back when it was archived. There's also archived pages for /index.php that resolve successfully all the way back to 2005. Maybe someone just manually asked archive.org to crawl that URL.

[cutler]

Not sure what you mean by orange.

[nickclaw]

Sorry I could have been clearer. The archive.org page that shows all scans[1] will mark dates as orange (4xx), green (3xx), or blue (presumably 2xx). The reason I don't think that the link you posted is indicative of something is that all the scans of that url resulted in 4xx's. As opposed to scans of index.php[2] which primarly show 2xx responses. Any framework, Coldfusion or not, will generally throw a 404 when you hit paths that don't exist.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120801000000*/http://www.faceb... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20120801000000*/http://www.faceb...

[cutler]

But wouldn't an index.cfm have existed at some point for the archive to flag specific years with an entry? It's the archive doing the scanning, not me.