[ale] stupid question to the apache experts

[Joe Steele]

A browser will generate this form of GET request if it is configured 
to use a proxy.  Configure your browser to use your web server as a 
proxy on port 80.  Then try to pull up http://www.spedia.net/.  You 
should successfully replicate the log entry.  

What's puzzling to me is that your server's response was 200 which 
indicates success.  Is your server set up to accept proxy requests?

--Joe

-----Original Message-----
From:	Wandered Inn [SMTP:esoteric at denali.atlnet.com]
Sent:	Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:40 AM
To:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	Re: [ale] stupid question to the apache experts

greg at turnstep.com wrote:
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> > 202.109.96.131 - - [22/Aug/2001:07:20:37 -0400] "GET
> > http://www.spedia.net/ HTTP/1.1" 200 717 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
> > MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)"
> 
> It just means that someone tried to get at a spedia.net file
> on your machine - why they did this is beyond me, but
> Apache acted normally enough for a HTTP/1.1 request.
> Here is how you can duplicate it:
> 
> > telnet localhost 80

Well, not exactly, note the entry above does indicate a browser type,
although I suppose this could be spoofed.  I'd like to be able to
reproduce it from a browser, kinda give me a warm and fuzzy that someone
was just doing something stupid, rather than someone who actually knew
what they were doing.


> I'd be interested if anyone can shed some light or
> has some guesses...

Me too.

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