Re: strange http get requests in apache access logs

rowland onobrauche wrote:
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> Hi all.
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> Im getting logs such as
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> "GET http://www.escorts-etc.com/cgi-bin/ftop100/rankem.cgi?id=gagvault
> HTTP/1.0" 200 147 "http://www.gagvault.com/linkspage.html";
> "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
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> In some of my httpd access logs, even though this type of site is not
> existant on the server.
> Anyone seen this before??
>   


Checks for an open proxy.
Nothing unusual - just make sure you don't actually have an open proxy 
running.


Rainer

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