Hi Sam and all, On Tue, 09 Oct 2001 12:12:59 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:27:52 -0500, I had written: >> Hello Arachnids: >> I just tried to access the URL named below. What happened is >> that I got a 404 error which identified my browser, in this case >> Arachne 1.70, rev 3, my operating system (DOS), my ISP, and my IP, >> the resolution of my monitor, and the fact that I had a WATTCP.CFG >> configuration file, and the date/time of my access. Up until just >> now I didn't know that a web site could determine so much info on >> you simply by your accessing a URL, unless you have a JavaScript >> enabled browser. > BTW, the ramifications of having such a feature incorporated into > web sites are enough to make anyone paranoid. If all web sites > were to have such a feature as that, then anybody could compile a > database on me to find out what a bad boy they think I am. All > anyone would have to do is to simply take a look at all the > naughty things I am interested in. Some people might even get the > idea that I am a dirty old man! Heaven forbid! The truth is that > I am a good church-goer. I certainly wouldn't want my fellow > church-goers to get the idea that they might have a hypocrite and > a sinner among their congregation. Is there any way we can > protect all the good church-going public from getting such ideas? I'm afraid it's time to get paranoid 'cuz all webservers create log files like this one (created by Jaffa WWW server for DOS whilst a test run on my machine): ---------- Tue 01-May-2001 > 10:06:08 Starting server. > 10:06:08 0: Opened new socket for listen > 10:06:08 1: Opened new socket for listen > 10:06:08 2: Opened new socket for listen > 10:06:40 Ending server. ---------- Tue 01-May-2001 > 20:09:43 Starting server. > 20:09:43 0: Opened new socket for listen > 20:09:43 1: Opened new socket for listen > 20:09:43 2: Opened new socket for listen > 20:16:38 3: Opened new socket for listen > 20:16:38 0: Connect from 145.253.148.33 > 20:16:38 0: raw identd: 32769, 80 : USERID : UNIX :thomas > 20:16:38 0: Ident returned 'thomas' > 20:16:38 0: > GET / HTTP/1.1 > 20:16:38 0: > Connection: Keep-Alive > 20:16:38 0: > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/2.1.1; X11) > 20:16:38 0: > Accept: text/*;q=1.0, image/png;q=1.0, image/jpeg;q=1.0, >image/gif;q=1.0, image/*;q=0.8, */*;q=0.5 > 20:16:38 0: > Accept-Encoding: x-gzip; q=1.0, gzip; q=1.0, identity > 20:16:38 0: > Accept-Charset: iso8859-1;q=1.0, *;q=0.9, utf-8;q=0.8 > 20:16:38 0: > Accept-Language: de, de_DE, en > 20:16:38 0: > Host: 217.83.226.74 > 20:16:38 0: Sending /index.html (185) > 20:16:38 0: File transfer completed. > 20:16:39 0: Closed socket > 20:16:39 0: Opened new socket for listen > 20:16:39 1: Connect from 145.253.148.33 > 20:16:39 1: raw identd: 32770, 80 : USERID : UNIX :thomas > 20:16:39 1: Ident returned 'thomas' > 20:16:39 1: > GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1 > 20:16:40 4: Opened new socket for listen > 20:16:40 2: Connect from 145.253.148.33 > 20:16:40 2: raw identd: 32771, 80 : USERID : UNIX :thomas > 20:16:40 2: Ident returned 'thomas' > 20:16:40 2: > GET /passbild.jpg HTTP/1.1 > 20:16:40 1: > Connection: Keep-Alive > 20:16:40 2: > Connection: Keep-Alive > 20:16:40 1: > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/2.1.1; X11) > 20:16:40 2: > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/2.1.1; X11) > 20:16:40 1: > Accept: text/*;q=1.0, image/png;q=1.0, image/jpeg;q=1.0, >image/gif;q=1.0, image/*;q=0.8, */*;q=0.5 > 20:16:40 2: > Referer: http://217.83.226.74 > 20:16:40 1: > Accept-Encoding: x-gzip; q=1.0, gzip; q=1.0, identity > 20:16:40 2: > Accept: image/x-ico, image/x-xpm, image/gif, image/x-krl, >image/x-bmp, image/x-eps, image/png, image/tiff, ima e/jpeg, image/x-pnm, image/x-xbm, image/fax-g3 > 20:16:40 1: > Accept-Charset: iso8859-1;q=1.0, *;q=0.9, utf-8;q=0.8 > 20:16:40 2: > Accept-Encoding: x-gzip; q=1.0, gzip; q=1.0, identity > 20:16:40 1: > Accept-Language: de, de_DE, en > 20:16:40 2: > Accept-Charset: iso8859-1;q=1.0, *;q=0.9, utf-8;q=0.8 > 20:16:40 1: > Host: 217.83.226.74 > 20:16:40 2: > Accept-Language: de, de_DE, en > 20:16:40 1: Requested object '/favicon.ico' not found > 20:16:40 2: > Host: 217.83.226.74 > 20:16:40 1: File transfer completed. > 20:16:40 2: Sending /passbild.jpg (38087) > 20:16:41 1: Closed socket > 20:16:46 2: File transfer completed. > 20:16:46 2: Closed socket > 20:23:46 1: Opened new socket for listen > 20:23:46 3: Connect from 217.85.228.24 > 20:23:56 3: Ident: connect timed out > 20:23:56 3: Ident returned '-' > 20:23:56 3: > GET / HTTP/1.0 > 20:23:56 3: > Connection: Keep-Alive > 20:23:56 3: > User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) > 20:23:56 3: > Host: 217.83.226.74 > 20:23:56 3: > Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, >image/png, */* > 20:23:56 3: > Accept-Encoding: gzip > 20:23:56 3: > Accept-Language: en > 20:23:56 3: > Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8 > 20:23:57 3: Sending /index.html (185) > 20:23:57 3: File transfer completed. > 20:23:57 3: Closed socket > 20:23:57 2: Opened new socket for listen > 20:23:57 0: Connect from 217.85.228.24 > 20:24:07 0: Ident: connect timed out > 20:24:07 0: Ident returned '-' > 20:24:07 0: > GET /passbild.jpg HTTP/1.0 > 20:24:07 0: Connection closed by remote host > 20:24:07 0: Closed socket > 20:24:10 0: Opened new socket for listen > 20:24:10 4: Connect from 217.85.228.24 > 20:24:20 4: Ident: connect timed out > 20:24:20 4: Ident returned '-' > 20:24:20 4: > GET /passbild.jpg HTTP/1.0 > 20:24:20 4: > Referer: http://217.83.226.74/ > 20:24:20 4: > Connection: Keep-Alive > 20:24:20 4: > User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) > 20:24:20 4: > Host: 217.83.226.74 > 20:24:20 4: > Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png > 20:24:20 4: > Accept-Encoding: gzip > 20:24:20 4: > Accept-Language: en > 20:24:20 4: > Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8 > 20:24:20 4: Sending /passbild.jpg (38087) > 20:24:23 4: File transfer completed. > 20:24:23 4: Connection closed by remote host > 20:24:23 4: Closed socket > 20:28:19 Ending server. The 404 You discovered is so kindly to tell You what was logged on the server :-). Regards Joerg -- Arachne V1.70, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
