I had a similar issue in the past, I believe I had tracked it down to a
toolbar, or some desktop application probing the site for some reason, I don't
remember exactly.Here is my filter put in
/servers/my_server/modules/tcl/filters.tcl
ns_register_filter preauth OPTIONS * options_naproc options_na { why } {
ns_return 405 "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" "OPTIONS method is not allowed on
this url" return filter_return}
too add the same for PROFIND just copy the first line and replace OPTIONS with
PROFIND and put it after the 1st line, then restart your server.
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:22:21 -0500
From: d...@thedesignexperience.org
To: dv...@diphi.com
CC: aolserver-talk@lists.sourceforge.net; brian.fen...@quest.ie
Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Tracked down bug with PROPFIND / OPTIONS methods
You can register a filter for those methods to return a 405 Method Not Allowed
response.
These requests can come from Microsoft products checking the capabilities of
your web server so it is not necessarily a hacker although it can indidcate
that as well.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Jeff Rogers <dv...@diphi.com> wrote:
If this is the bug I think it is, a checkin from 10/2011 fixed this bug.
handle internal error from redirect recursion overflow
directly instead of redirecting to internal error page. Prevents
error displaying error page from crashing server.
If updating to a more recent server isn't an option, you should be able
to apply the patch standalone:
http://aolserver.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/aolserver/aolserver/nsd/op.c?r1=1.18&r2=1.19
Also, doesn't necessarily need to be hackers probing you; some versions
of windows are very eager about discovering shares on their local network.
-J
Fenton, Brian wrote:
> Hello
>
> We've just had some reports of this error re-appearing on some systems. Was
> there ever a solution found?
>
> These PROPFIND/OPTIONS methods seem to be something to do with WebDav, which
> as far as I'm aware, we're not using. Any idea what would cause them to
> appear in the logs?
>
> Thanks
> Brian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Jackson
> Sent: 14 April 2009 14:10
> To: aolserver-talk@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [AOLSERVER] Tracked down bug with PROPFIND / OPTIONS methods
>
> Over the last few years some users have noticed that their servers
> suddenly stop responding, and the error log has entries similar to this:
>
> [-conn:965-] Error: return: failed to redirect
> 'PROPFIND /global/file-not-found.tcl': exceeded recursion limit of 3
> [-conn:965-] Error: return: failed to redirect
> 'PROPFIND /global/server-error.tcl': exceeded recursion limit of 3
>
> The second error.log line then repeats hundreds or thousands of times
> until the server stops responding.
>
> The question is why this happens, and what do these log entries tell
> us.
>
> I think I have found out the answer, but the fix isn't apparent.
>
> The first error message indicates the recursion limit code is working
> correctly, after three tries, the HTTP status code goes from 404 to 500.
> The second error message indicates a similar recursion limit is reached
> looking for a 500 handler. Unfortunately there is a loop here:
>
> Ns_ConnReturnInternalError
> executes
> ReturnRedirect
> which executes
> Ns_ConnRedirect
> which executes
> Ns_ConnReturnInternalError
>
> This loop accounts for the remaining error log entries.
>
> One problem is that ReturnRedirect uses the redirects configured like
> this:
>
> ns_section "ns/server/farid/redirects"
> ns_param 404 "/fnf-tmpl.tcl"
> ns_param 403 "global/forbidden.html"
> ns_param 500 "global/server-error.tcl"
>
> What is missing, it seems to me is the method of the request. The method
> is used in Ns_AuthorizeRequest and Ns_ConnRunRequest.
>
> The quick fix is to not configure a 500 redirect.
>
> tom jackson
>
>
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