On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 11:11:03AM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > I am curious. Is this message meant to be > > * funny and harmless > * a prank that may cause a problem for the uninitiated > * malicious and meant to do harm > * something else?
Funny and harmless. Note the 400 http status - malformed request. Not that a different malformed request would not pose an issue, that's just not the case here. > Thanks! > > Mark > On Jan 7, 2016 11:01 AM, "chris (fool) mccraw" <gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Paul Heinlein <heinl...@madboa.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I got the same thing timestamped 30/Dec/2015:04:16:18 +0000 (so roughly > > > the same local time as yours). Kind of funny, > > > > > > Me three. > > > > > > > as long as it doesn't inspire legions of copycats. > > > > > > I am not worried about copycats - logrotate dutifully removes them from the > > face of the earth even if they are nonsense. plus, I am ok disabling the > > DELETE verb on my apache (ref: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4167305/apache-limit-put-and-delete) > > since none of my apps use it. Of course there will always be other > > vectors, and then someone will make a close of denyhosts to shut things > > down, if it really escalates :) > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity Don't throw away your dreams. ~ http://someoneoncetoldme.com/gallery/25012008 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
