Re: SOT, but... what the heck is MS FrontPage?
I think if you have FP installed and you use IE and you have things configured a certain way, FP will just try to see if the site supports FP Extensions. Ok, but then, if he is using IE, shouldn't MSIE appear somewhere in the user agent ? IF the user agent is Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MS FrontPage 14.0) is the guy really using IE? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354655 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: SOT, but... what the heck is MS FrontPage?
Why on earth would you forbid HEAD? I thought it was, because the response was not 200, but it is not. The response is actaully 206, which is normal. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354656 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: SOT, but... what the heck is MS FrontPage?
I think if you have FP installed and you use IE and you have things configured a certain way, FP will just try to see if the site supports FP Extensions. Ok, but then, if he is using IE, shouldn't MSIE appear somewhere in the user agent ? IF the user agent is Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MS FrontPage 14.0) is the guy really using IE? I have no idea, but I do know that lots of things have historically identified themselves as Mozilla for compatibility reasons. Maybe FP has a built-in web browsing interface. Maybe it's Visual Studio, which also has (had?) the ability to use FP server extensions. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354659 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
SOT, but... what the heck is MS FrontPage?
Hi, My sites are hit on a regular basis by this agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MS FrontPage 14.0) - it makes requests with methods OPTIONS or HEAD which are forbiden in my sites; - it makes requests for pages that does not exist, like - /_vti_inf.html - /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc The result is that the visitors are tagged as bad bot. What are they looking for? Should I let them go or what? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354625 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: SOT, but... what the heck is MS FrontPage?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:26 AM, wrote: Hi, My sites are hit on a regular basis by this agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MS FrontPage 14.0) - it makes requests with methods OPTIONS or HEAD which are forbiden in my sites; - it makes requests for pages that does not exist, like - /_vti_inf.html - /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc The result is that the visitors are tagged as bad bot. What are they looking for? Should I let them go or what? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354626 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: SOT, but... what the heck is MS FrontPage?
My sites are hit on a regular basis by this agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MS FrontPage 14.0) - it makes requests with methods OPTIONS or HEAD which are forbiden in my sites; - it makes requests for pages that does not exist, like - /_vti_inf.html - /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc The result is that the visitors are tagged as bad bot. What are they looking for? Should I let them go or what? FrontPage is an HTML authoring tool from Microsoft. It's no longer available, and is famous for crappy HTML. It uses WebDAV to publish to sites. The HTTP verbs it's using are WebDAV verbs. It's looking for FrontPage Extensions. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354627 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: SOT, but... what the heck is MS FrontPage?
- it makes requests with methods OPTIONS or HEAD which are forbiden in my sites; Why on earth would you forbid HEAD? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354628 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: SOT, but... what the heck is MS FrontPage?
FrontPage is an HTML authoring tool from Microsoft. So, do I suppose well if I suppose the user is trying to see if he can edit my site if it is accessible to FrontPage and is not protected? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354648 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: SOT, but... what the heck is MS FrontPage?
Front Page is an abomination made by Microsoft a few years ago, It was a piss poor attempt at drag/drop HTML. The only thing worse than Front Page were the IIS extensions that would routinely bring IIS to it's knees, or blow up IIS entirely. It looks like someone is trying to hit your sites with a Front Page Editor or trying to find the FP specific files/folders to attempt an exploit. deny.. deny...deny Every time someone uses MS Front Page, a kitten dies.. On 2/22/2013 11:26 AM, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claude_Schn=E9egans wrote: Hi, My sites are hit on a regular basis by this agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MS FrontPage 14.0) - it makes requests with methods OPTIONS or HEAD which are forbiden in my sites; - it makes requests for pages that does not exist, like - /_vti_inf.html - /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc The result is that the visitors are tagged as bad bot. What are they looking for? Should I let them go or what? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354649 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: SOT, but... what the heck is MS FrontPage?
Frontpage was not originally development by Microsoft, they bought ir or the original company, realised Frontpage was an abomination and dumped it. It has been discontinued and unsupported for many years, it has all kinds of security issues. On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Scott Stewart webmas...@sstwebworks.comwrote: Front Page is an abomination made by Microsoft a few years ago, It was a piss poor attempt at drag/drop HTML. The only thing worse than Front Page were the IIS extensions that would routinely bring IIS to it's knees, or blow up IIS entirely. It looks like someone is trying to hit your sites with a Front Page Editor or trying to find the FP specific files/folders to attempt an exploit. deny.. deny...deny Every time someone uses MS Front Page, a kitten dies.. On 2/22/2013 11:26 AM, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claude_Schn=E9egans wrote: Hi, My sites are hit on a regular basis by this agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MS FrontPage 14.0) - it makes requests with methods OPTIONS or HEAD which are forbiden in my sites; - it makes requests for pages that does not exist, like - /_vti_inf.html - /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc The result is that the visitors are tagged as bad bot. What are they looking for? Should I let them go or what? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354650 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: SOT, but... what the heck is MS FrontPage?
Front Page is an abomination made by Microsoft a few years ago, As we used to say back in the day: Friends don't let friends use FrontPage. IIRC it dates back to '95. It mangled code. The only thing worse was NetScape's authoring tool which rendered HTML utterly unreadable. A the bad old days === SHUDDER. G! On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Scott Stewart webmas...@sstwebworks.comwrote: It was a piss poor attempt at drag/drop HTML. -- Gerald Guido http://www.myinternetisbroken.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354651 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: SOT, but... what the heck is MS FrontPage?
So, do I suppose well if I suppose the user is trying to see if he can edit my site if it is accessible to FrontPage and is not protected? Not necessarily. I think if you have FP installed and you use IE and you have things configured a certain way, FP will just try to see if the site supports FP Extensions. I think that's more likely than someone actively looking for FP sites nowadays. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354652 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: SOT, but... what the heck is MS FrontPage?
Front Page is an abomination made by Microsoft a few years ago, As we used to say back in the day: Friends don't let friends use FrontPage. IIRC it dates back to '95. It mangled code. The only thing worse was NetScape's authoring tool which rendered HTML utterly unreadable. A the bad old days === SHUDDER. G! On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Scott Stewart webmas...@sstwebworks.comwrote: It was a piss poor attempt at drag/drop HTML. -- Gerald Guido http://www.myinternetisbroken.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354653 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
