Hi

Sorry to reply so late but I did not have proxy enabled in my httpd.conf in
apache than the problem is somewhere else

regards
Shishir Singhai

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Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 8:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [analog-help] Req report contains req for other sites


Klaus Johannes Rusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stephen Turner wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Aengus wrote:
>>
>>> Shishir Singhai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> [27/Oct/2002:23:16:17 +051800] "GET http://www.yahoo.com HTTP/1.1"
>>>> 200 8779 "-" "ProxyHunter"
>>> Is this a proxy server log file? (It doesn't look like one). But
>>> they're not valid URL requests on any web server I've ever used.
>>
>> Could be, but it's more likely that mod_proxy is enabled, allowing
>> this server to act as a proxy server. In that case, you should turn
>> it off (or restrict access to trusted users, if you meant for it to
>> be a proxy server). You really don't want your computer fielding
>> requests from random people to other servers.
>
> ProxyHunter is actually a tool looking for open proxies -- see
> <URL:http://www.proxys4all.com/tools.shtml> for details.

The fact that the sample log entries happened to contain "ProxyHunter"
as one of the browsers is irrelevant (you snipped the other two
entries). The log entries look like proxy logs because the requests
aren't for local files.

Aengus

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