Re: Apache log entry

From: sandrews (sandrews@philippines-island.org)
Date: 04/03/03


From: sandrews <sandrews@philippines-island.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 22:25:18 GMT

ljb wrote:

> sandrews@philippines-island.org wrote:
>> Jeremia d. wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:22:33 +0000, sandrews wrote:
>>>
>>>> What does this entry in my apache access log mean:
>>>>
>>>> 219.137.53.13 - - [01/Apr/2003:03:56:38 -0500] "GET
>>>> http://www.intel.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 5056
>>>>
>>>> Does it mean that someone is going to www.intel.com through my server ?
>>> There using your webserver as proxy
>>
>> Yes that is what I thought, I will need to find out how to configure
>> apache not to do that.
>
> Apache does not do proxy by default, but it does ignore http://hostname on
> a GET command if not proxying. So, is your home page 5056 bytes long? Most
> likely somebody tried to proxy through you, and got your home page
> instead.

Yep 5056 exactly. So you must be right on them getting my home page. I was
concerned that apache was doing proxy, although I did not belive I had
turned it on by mistake.

How would one go about constructing a URL to do this? would you use my
hostname and then somehow pass a GET ?

Thankyou very much.



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