RE: Spam Using SMTP Over HTTP-Proxy

2003-09-05 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Joshua Slive [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Jeroen Massar wrote: Requiring a IKnowIAmOperatingAOpenProxy flag that needs to be set explicitly would be a better idea then :) That's what the ProxyRequests directive does. Giving it a

Re: Spam Using SMTP Over HTTP-Proxy

2003-09-04 Thread Joshua Slive
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Chris Knight wrote: Joshua Slive wrote: I think we've done pretty-much all we can. I wouldn't mind putting a little note on the httpd.apache.org homepage saying Have you secured your proxy? and point to the correct docs. What about sending a warning message to

RE: Spam Using SMTP Over HTTP-Proxy

2003-09-04 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Joshua Slive [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that is feasible. There are MANY ways to do access control in apache. Sending a message along the lines of Your server is configured to proxy requests to arbitrary servers. whenever

RE: Spam Using SMTP Over HTTP-Proxy

2003-09-04 Thread Joshua Slive
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Jeroen Massar wrote: Requiring a IKnowIAmOperatingAOpenProxy flag that needs to be set explicitly would be a better idea then :) That's what the ProxyRequests directive does. Giving it a silly name isn't going to help ;-) Seriously, we could add a default deny for

RE: Spam Using SMTP Over HTTP-Proxy

2003-09-04 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 02:41 PM 9/4/2003, Joshua Slive wrote: Seriously, we could add a default deny for outgoing port 25 (smtp) and 6660-6670 (irc) proxied connections. This won't really hurt anyone as I don't see any reasons why anybody would want that. A special AllowProxyPorts 25 6660-6670 directive could

Re: Spam Using SMTP Over HTTP-Proxy

2003-09-02 Thread Chris Knight
Joshua Slive wrote: I think we've done pretty-much all we can. I wouldn't mind putting a little note on the httpd.apache.org homepage saying Have you secured your proxy? and point to the correct docs. What about sending a warning message to stderr/error_log upon startup if the proxy is not

Re: Spam Using SMTP Over HTTP-Proxy

2003-08-28 Thread Cliff Woolley
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Eli Marmor wrote: According to research companies, most of the current spamming is done using HTTP proxies. Spammers assistant scripts scan the net 24 hours a day, looking for open proxies, and then use them to spread the spam. Correct. And people continue to submit this

Re: Spam Using SMTP Over HTTP-Proxy

2003-08-28 Thread Joshua Slive
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Eli Marmor wrote: According to research companies, most of the current spamming is done using HTTP proxies. I find that hard to believe. I believe a substantial amount of spam comes this way, but most seems unlikely. 1. Is there any existing code and/or module that

Re: Spam Using SMTP Over HTTP-Proxy

2003-08-28 Thread szymanski_j
Problem can come from your module to be linked with external shared libraries. Look at: http://www.megalith.co.uk/manual/dso.html hope it helps, cheers, --jakub --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Eli Marmor wrote: According to research

Re: Spam Using SMTP Over HTTP-Proxy

2003-08-28 Thread André Malo
* szymanski_j wrote: [smtp over http proxy] Problem can come from your module to be linked with external shared libraries. ??? nd -- Wenn nur Ingenieure mit Diplom programmieren würden, hätten wir wahrscheinlich weniger schlechte Software. Wir hätten allerdings auch weniger gute Software.

Re: Spam Using SMTP Over HTTP-Proxy

2003-08-28 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 12:23 PM 8/28/2003, André Malo wrote: * szymanski_j wrote: [smtp over http proxy] Problem can come from your module to be linked with external shared libraries. ??? I could not understand your reference, either. Would you further explain how DSOs have any relationship with using HTTP

Re: Spam Using SMTP Over HTTP-Proxy

2003-08-28 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
The issue that the reporter, Jason Robertson, suggested to partially solve this proble is that we should add another AllowConnect directive, such as AllowHttpProxy, to restrict the ports that you can use to proxy HTTP traffic. We already have this restriction available for CONNECT (usually https)

Re: Spam Using SMTP Over HTTP-Proxy

2003-08-28 Thread Cliff Woolley
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Joshua Slive wrote: I think we've done pretty-much all we can. I wouldn't mind putting a little note on the httpd.apache.org homepage saying Have you secured your proxy? and point to the correct docs. +1. Additionally, Eli and I have been conversing a bit more off-list,