Re: [users@httpd] redirect https to http

2011-05-31 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Frank, thanks. I looked at the compatibility and that does not look too good as we have loads of people using IE7 and XP, not sure ... it looks good, though. Our company uses Firefox 3.68 so thats not the problem but I have online questionnaires that rely on the https stuff, and lots of our

RE: [users@httpd] mod_deflate and chunked encoding

2011-05-31 Thread Geoff Millikan
...is it possible that mod_deflate works by chunks... Why are you doing this? It's not to increase client-side performance because correct me if I'm wrong here but it's been my understanding that the web browser cannot start decompressing the page until it receives the final chunk. Based on

Re: [users@httpd] mod_deflate and chunked encoding

2011-05-31 Thread Xavier Noria
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Geoff Millikan gmilli...@t1shopper.com wrote: ...is it possible that mod_deflate works by chunks... Why are you doing this?  It's not to increase client-side performance because correct me if I'm wrong here but it's been my understanding that the web

RE: [users@httpd] mod_deflate and chunked encoding

2011-05-31 Thread Geoff Millikan
Goal is to get the HEAD of HTML documents in the client side as soon as possible ...thus having a more responsive page... Agreed! Can anyone confirm or deny this... +1 I ran a quick test on a 10MB file that looks like this: htmlhead link rel=stylesheet href=broken_link_here.css

RE: [users@httpd] mod_deflate and chunked encoding

2011-05-31 Thread Geoff Millikan
My test showed (according to Firebug) that the 15 MB page downloaded in 618ms. Should clarify that on disk, the page was 14,254,523 bytes but after deflating, I downloaded a mere 314 bytes of headers (uncompressed) plus the 41,841 byte response body (compressed) for a total payload of

[users@httpd] strange encoded requests coming in to my server - like ' \x80F\x01\x03\x01 ' ??

2011-05-31 Thread Jason Vas Dias
Now finally able to host a website on my home static-IP ADSL connection, using Linux (FC-14) apache httpd-2.2.17-1.fc14.x86_64 , with IP-passthrough and Full NAT enabled on the ADSL router so it assigns my host its own WAN address , I'm seeing these strange entries in the access log :

Re: [users@httpd] strange encoded requests coming in to my server - like '

2011-05-31 Thread Larry W Burton
Jason, Congratulations. You are the likely target of a kiddie script attempting a buffer overflow or dot dot variant. Check your error logs and your access logs to ensure that the attempts were not successful. You can expect 10-20 of these attacks per day. Larry Dr. Larry Burton Associate

Re: [users@httpd] strange encoded requests coming in to my server - like'

2011-05-31 Thread Jason Vas Dias
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 15:16:00 Larry W Burton wrote: Jason, Congratulations. You are the likely target of a kiddie script attempting a buffer overflow or dot dot variant. Check your error logs and your access logs to ensure that the attempts were not successful. You can expect 10-20 of these

Re: [users@httpd] strange encoded requests coming in to my server - like ' \x80F\x01\x03\x01 ' ??

2011-05-31 Thread Ben Timby
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Jason Vas Dias jason.vas.d...@gmail.com wrote: I guess this is just opportunist hosts trying to connect to port 80 / port 443 with a garbage protocol ? If so, why are log entries made in the access log and not in the error log ? Jason, this looks like a host

Re: [users@httpd] strange encoded requests coming in to my server - like ' \x80F\x01\x03\x01 ' ??

2011-05-31 Thread Jason Vas Dias
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 15:37:17 Ben Timby wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Jason Vas Dias jason.vas.d...@gmail.com wrote: I guess this is just opportunist hosts trying to connect to port 80 / port 443 with a garbage protocol ? If so, why are log entries made in the access log and

Re: [users@httpd] Apache 2.x configuration for high load servers

2011-05-31 Thread sunhux G
I'm new to Apache to my environment too. We run 4 Apache V2.0.52 I've seeing high load averages (of 3 to 13) reported by top on the Linux RHES 4.6 for the 1, 5 15 minutes avgs on 3 of our webservers. All the servers' CPU are generally idle except one webserver which sometimes hit 90-100% CPU

Re: [users@httpd] strange encoded requests coming in to my server - like'

2011-05-31 Thread Yehuda Katz
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Jason Vas Dias jason.vas.d...@gmail.comwrote: But I had the impression from reading the documentation that the access_log was to record actual ACCESSes , ie. for requests that at least pass the is a valid HTTP request test , and that non-requests, if logged

Re: [users@httpd] mod_deflate and chunked encoding

2011-05-31 Thread Xavier Noria
Thanks a lot Geoff. Can you provide some more information to be able to reproduce your test over here? And how many chunks did the response contain? In addition to that, if someone with first-hand knowledge of Apache or browser internals could shed a light I'd really appreciate it. Reverse

RE: [users@httpd] mod_deflate and chunked encoding

2011-05-31 Thread Geoff Millikan
Can you provide some more information to be able to reproduce your test over here? Just make a web page like the one described. Enable mod_deflate and load the page in your favorite browser that has debugging (Firebug, IE9, Chrome, etc). In my case, it appears Apache selects the chunked