You are right! Maybe it only rejects browser-ish headers.
On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 08:12:47 -0700 Dennis Peterson <denni...@inetnw.com> wrote: > If you run that curl command I provided it will return only the > signature serial number. > > dp > > On 7/3/18 6:59 AM, Paul Kosinski wrote: > > Determining what version a *mirror* has is a bit tricky. Looking at > > the capture of the entire HTTP session with the new mirrors, they > > seem to require some header magic to be acceptable: > > > > Host: db.us.clamav.net > > User-Agent: ClamAV/0.99.4 (OS: linux-gnu, ARCH: x86_64, CPU: > > x86_64) > > > > Simply trying to point your (e.g.) browser at a mirror's IP gets > > you: > > > > Error 1003 Ray ID: 4349da2f33f4ae20 • 2018-07-03 13:55:52 UTC > > Direct IP access not allowed > > > > > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 00:11:06 -0700 > > Dennis Peterson <denni...@inetnw.com> wrote: > > > >> Well damn - they say memory is the first thing to go... > >> > >> curl -s -r 35-39 http://db.us.clamav.net/daily.cvd |strings > >> > >> The -s (silent) inhibits stats. > >> > >> dp > >> > >> On 7/3/18 12:02 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote: > >>> I had completely forgotten about freshclam grabbing the entire > >>> file to determine currency. I recall knocking off a quick script > >>> to avoid that which included: > >>> > >>> curl -q -r 35-39 http://db.us.clamav.net/daily.cvd |strings > >>> > >>> It returns the ID of what ever version is on the mirror. I've > >>> added strings to the end as a safety valve in case someone wants > >>> to try it with different arguments to the -r. > >>> > >>> Being retired I no longer sweat the small schtuff, but when I was > >>> responsible for hundreds of servers I used every trick in the book > >>> to avoid wasting time (CFengine was involved and freshclam was > >>> not). Because the filename daily.xxx is overloaded (version > >>> agnostic) this kind of trick was needed. > >>> > >>> dp > > _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
