----- "lists httpd-user" <lists.httpd-u...@duinheks.nl> wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> Regularly I see entries in the error log like: 
> "GET http://98.126.64.106/judge123.php HTTP/1.1" 404
> with varying IP address and varying file name.
> I am not very worried, because the 404 means they don't get
> anything.
> But I'd like to know what exactly they are trying to do (and why do
> it via my system)?
> Thanks for any clarifying thoughts.

Somebody is using your server as open proxy, and successfully so.
Even though you see 404s, that doesn't mean it's being rejected.
A 403 would mean it is being rejected.

See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxyrequests
It's off by default, and for good.

> Regards,
> 
>       Hans.
> 
> J.D.H. Beekhuizen
> e-mail:       jdh.beekhui...@duinheks.nl
> tel:  ++31(71)4015437
> fax:  ++31(71)4017198
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