Unknown requests from IE 5

From: David Ward (dward@maidencreek.com)
Date: 10/23/01 

Message-ID: <3BD49BCA.8040405@maidencreek.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:20:58 -0700
From: David Ward <dward@maidencreek.com>
To: incidents@securityfocus.com
Subject: Unknown requests from IE 5

We seem to have been receiving a number of HTTP requests similar to the
following lately:

168.10.36.63 - - [22/Oct/2001:14:07:59 -0700] "GET
/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?UL=1&ACT=4&BUILD=2614&STRMVER=4&CAPREQ=0 HTTP/1.0"
200 20677 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"

168.10.36.63 - - [22/Oct/2001:14:08:00 -0700] "GET
/MSOffice/cltreq.asp?UL=1&ACT=4&BUILD=2614&STRMVER=4&CAPREQ=0 HTTP/1.0"
200 20677 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"

Does anyone know what these requests are looking for? I am assuming
that they are harmless requests from IE 5 assuming that it is talking to
an IIS or exchange server, but I cannot find anything that mentions what
these files actually are.

Dave
dward@maidencreek.com 

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