I may be late to the party. But, I tried this and my server produced:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /*.cfm on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an
ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) JRun/4.0 PHP/5.0.1 Server at
www.somewhere.com<http://www.somewhere.com>Port 80




On 10/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I heard a challenge from a security consultant that "if you are using
> ColdFusion you do not have a secure server." He maintains that CF is full of
> things a hacker can access. For example he gave the following example. If
> you attempt to open a CF website with the following command it will generate
> an error message that gives you the IP address of the CF server:
>
> sitename.org/*.cfm <http://sitename.org/*.cfm>
>
> I tried this on a wide variety of sites and found that most CF sites
> return the error with the IP address. Some, however appear to trap this
> error somehow.
>
> What should be done on a CF server to prevent that type of error exposing
> the IP address of a CF server?
>
> This error is occuring prior to the execution of an application.cfm file
> in the host root directory so you cannot programatically trap it.
>
> 

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