I've seen urls with .... in the middle coming from some BBS systems as referrers. it seems some of the software condenses the url in the display, but sets the link target to the full one. I think then users quote that post and the target gets confused into the http://foo...html url.
Maybe a bad crawler is picking up the ... urls also A On Apr 5, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Chad Morland wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Yehuda Katz <yeh...@ymkatz.net> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Chad Morland <cmorl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've got a domain hosted on one of our servers that seems to be getting a ton > of junk traffic from Bit Torrent clients. > > The request that is showing up in my access_log is: > > /announce...cedc031275%20430?info_hash=%CE%0Az%19%3C%3B~%84%2F.%8Cc%8A%DDyZ%C7%18%18%26&peer_id=-BC0109-%5E%02%B2%FDw%AB%19%DD%D9%BDxB&port=24668&natmapped=1&localip=192.168.1.11&port_type=wan&uploaded=0&downloaded=0&left=31457280&numwant=100&compact=1&no_peer_id=1&key=48054&event=started > > As you can see the full URI is not displayed after "announce". What is > causing this to be clipped? I've tried different LogFormat options but > nothing seems to display the full URI. > > You might be able to use "%U" for the URL without the query string and > separately "%q" for the query string only. > > - Y > > I tried %U previously and I just tried it with %q as well. It looks like I am > just getting the query string with %q but I still get > "/announce...93d3fda523" for %U. > > It's possible that this actually is the URL being requested. I've never seen > apache condense log entries prevously so it may just be a screwy request. I > guess I will try matching "/announce..." and see if it does block those > requests. > > Thanks for your help. > > > -CM --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
