On Saturday 30 August 2003 10:11 am, MKlinke wrote:
> On Saturday 30 August 2003 01:39, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> > First of all, is this dangerous and make my machine vulnerable?
> >
> > RDB
>
> You should easily be able to duplicate the entry by telnetting into your
> web server on port 80 and issue the same or similar GET request.  In my
> case the URL requested is ignored and the web page's proper data is
> returned but like you the entry in the access log show:
>
> "GET http://www.webtwo.com/"; 200 16991 "-" "-"
>
> when, for example test this against www.webone.com.
>
> Take a look at the number after the "200"; is it the nuber of bytes
> contined in YOUR web site?  If so, that is what was probably displayed.

OK, I am don't quite understand this. When I tried telnetting to port 80 on my 
own server, and then say
GET http://www.webtwo.com/

all I get in reply is the index page of my own server. So I am fine? The proxy 
folder in the apache directory also empty

Thanks.
RDB



> Regards,  Mike Klinke

-- 
Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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