Re: [users@httpd] What's this?

[li...@duinheks.nl]

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Hello Igor,

Oct 27, Oct 27, Igor Galić wrote to users@httpd.apache.org about Re:...:

IG > > Regularly I see entries in the error log like: 
IG > > "GET http://98.126.64.106/judge123.php HTTP/1.1" 404

IG > Somebody is using your server as open proxy, and successfully so.

Strange...

IG > Even though you see 404s, that doesn't mean it's being rejected.
IG > A 403 would mean it is being rejected.
IG > See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxyrequests
IG > It's off by default, and for good.

I have not touched any proxy setting in my configuration. As you
say, proxy request forwarding should by default be be off. What I
don't understand is, why they do get the 404 errors. Or actually any
error at all.

Thanks,

J.D.H. Beekhuizen
e-mail:	jdh.beekhuizen@duinheks.nl
tel:	++31(71)4015437
fax:	++31(71)4017198

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